To begin, here's a shot of the product packaging, along with its contents:įinally,what about that heat sink? For reasons I'll explain shortly, I wasn'tmotivated to remove it, in the process potentially destroying the ICunderneath it. A preview: the “PVR” part of the product name is particularly important. The latter path is the one taken by Mediasonic (the subject of this particular teardown) with its HomeWorx HW-150PVR. Another approach involves a retained focus on the TV-tethered receiver, albeit with expanded capabilities.
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One approach to remaining relevant, pursued by companies such as Ceton, Hauppauge, and SiliconDust, involves a refocus on the PC (or a NAS) as the ATSC broadcast nexus, with dedicated smartphones and tablets, along with TV-tethered game consoles and streaming media boxes, as playback options. After all, baseline ATSC reception is now built into all modern TVs, and it's no longer possible to buy an analog-only television in most markets (or even a standard-definition or enhanced-definition variant of a digital-input display, for that matter).
In this and the next teardown in this series, I thought I'd revisit the topic roughly seven years later, to see if products like these still exist and, if so, how they've evolved. Back in early 2009, I disassembled and analyzed a collection of ATSC converter boxes which were candidates for FCC subsidy in conjunction with the U.S.
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