It is a PC Card that features an aerial input, a tuner (of Samsung manufacture) a Digital TV decoder and an MPEG encoding chip designed to work in PowerBooks.
The card, conforming to the PC Card specs, will use DMA to reduce CPU load. The bundled software will offer TV watching, time-shifting, and record scheduling capabilities, all with the option to skip commercials.
The card as of time of release, will only compress in MPEG2. However, a later firmware upgrade will provide MPEG4 encoding capabilities.
Retail price will be 209 euros.
