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Pinnacle PCTV MCE Companion September 20, 2006

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Pinnacle Systems also released an upgrade product for people who own Windows Media Center PCs called the PCTV MCE Companion. The PCTV MCE Companion brings a TV tuner, MCE remote, and IR transmitter to MCE systems that don’t have these components - and there are more systems without these components than you’d think.

Here are the main features of the PCTV MCE Companion

Turns your MCE system into a full featured TV set and FM Radio
Turn your PC into a DVR
View full screen or partial screen TV
Control set top boxes with the IR transmitter
Enables featureset found in Windows Media Center such as timeshifting, pause, rewind, and play
Record shows to your hard drive in MPEG-1 format
Records shows in the destination file format of your choice

The PCTV MCE Companion is being sold for $99.99