TAIPEI (30 TH August 2005)- AVerMedia announced that its AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card won the Technology Innovate Accelerated Award (TIA) in the Digital Home category at the IDF (Intel Developer Forum) in San Francisco on August 25, 2005. TIA is a recognition for companies which take a creative approach in developing exciting new products through technologies that promise to exceed customer expectations. The award-winning product, AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card, is the spotlight in the Digital Home category at the IDF.

As the new platform for digital entertainment, Intel® Viiv™ technology, will launch in early 2006, AVerMedia presents its AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card to provide a great entertainment experience of TV viewing on a PC. The award-winning glory recognizes AVerMedia's leading role in multimedia TV tuner products again. The AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card also proves that AVerMedia has a leading role among the outstanding creative and innovative companies to join the coming new digital entertainment era.

AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card is the first PCIe Interface dual TV tuner card, which utilizes the Intel 945G SDVO interface, showing great performance in TV viewing and PVR function in Windows XP Media Center Edition. AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card has dual tuner and HW MPEG encoders with DVI output capability. In addition, it provides a cost-effective way to watch one channel and record another channel in MCE 2005. This product allows users to utilize the onboard VGA graphic controller and still have the DVI output function on the TV tuner card. AVerTV MCE Media Expansion Card will support the new platform for digital entertainment, Intel® Viiv™, and Windows XP MCE 2005.