AVerMedia Unleashes AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX USB ATSC Tuner

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AVerMedia said its AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX USB ATSC tuner stick is now available at a suggested retail price of $79.99 The tuner won a technology innovation award at CES 2008.

It’s able to receive ATSC, ClearQAM, analog TV and FM radio signals. It also supports real-time H.264 compression, reducing CPU loading and the amount of hard disk space needed for recordings. The AVerMedia press release did not specify the tuner and demodulator chips used in the Hybrid Volar MAX.

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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.