AVerMedia has launched a new PCI-Express HDTV tuner that can handle your usual ATSC, ClearQAM and NTSC television signals. In other words, you use the AVerTV Bravo Hybrid PCI-E to watch standard definition television or unencrypted HDTV signals from an antenna or cable box.

Like most other TV tuners in its class, the Bravo Hybrid can encode your high definition and standard def TV streams as MPEG-2 video files. But the card can also encode videos using the H.264 codec, allowing you to compress your videos to save space in real-time without the need for a blazing fast computer processor. Not only will your H.264 videos take up less space on your PC, but they'll also be iPod-compatible.

The AVerTV Bravo Hybrid PCI-E is available now for about $80.

[via Electronista]