The internal combustion technology that MCE-5 has been working on was something Saab also dabbled in almost a decade ago, but the project was shelved by GM due to lack of funds.

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Signal strength for over-the-air HD broadcasts was good, and the tuner worked well with MCE to record in "incredible" quality.

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It is set to spread rapidly in 2006, now that most manufacturers, notably HP, are shipping MCE home media centres (attractive PCs with all the bells and whistles that look fine sitting next to your hi-fi in the lounge and have one or more digital TV tuners built in).

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