LifeView WDM TV Tuner

Windows device driver information for LifeView WDM TV Tuner

LifeView WDM TV Tuner is a TV tuner card produced by Animation Technologies Inc. It is a computer component which enables a computer to receive television signals. Most of the TV Tuners also serve as video capture which means that they can record TV programs which are then saved on a hard disk. TV Tuners come in varied interfaces such as a PCI expansion card or a USB device. Currently, there are four types of TV tuner cards; Analog cards have analog input and quite a number of them also have FM reception. Digital cards give a whole MPEG stream for transport or extract video as well as audio elementary streams individually. Hybrid tuners mean that the tuner has an analog or digital configuration and one can switch between the systems through a reconfiguration. Combo tuners are the same as hybrid cards but have two different tuners on the same card.

LifeView WDM TV Tuner is a windows driver model, also referred to as Win32 Driver model. Windows Driver Model (WDM) is a device driver framework which was brought in with Windows 98 as well as Windows 2000 operating system as a replacement for VxD. VxD was used in the older Windows versions, for instance, Windows 3.1 along with Windows 95 and Windows NT driver model. Users should note that drivers which conform to WDM cannot function on operating systems which come before Windows 98 and Windows 2000. WDM drivers have been manufactured to be forward- compatible. This means that a WDM driver is able to function on a Windows version which is more recent than the one that it was made for initially. On the other hand, a WDM driver is not backward compatible to Windows version older than the one it was initially made for. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for and LifeView WDM TV Tuner errors before installing any driver updates.