Digital video recorders are becoming the new must-have item for consumers. Cable and satellite companies are offering DVR systems to its customers TiVo is also still around for cable users that want to own their own DVR box. Than there's the do-it-yourself crowd that prefers to well do-it themselves. Since Microsoft made Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 available as OEM software to anyone with the purchase of a piece of hardware the DIY community has embraced it. System integrators have also begun releasing more Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 systems.

A couple months ago NVIDIA announced its latest TV tuner the NVIDIA DualTV MCE. This time around NVIDIA is selling the card itself in a full retail package instead of having board makers release products based on a reference design. The NVIDIA DualTV MCE is as the name implies, a TV tuner engineered with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 in mind.