Comments on: CableCards and OEM? Not so fast, my friend! http://themetabrowser.com/2009/09/10/cablecards-and-oem-not-so-fast-my-friend/ Your all-in-one solution for metadata. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: fantaxp7 http://themetabrowser.com/2009/09/10/cablecards-and-oem-not-so-fast-my-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-31 fantaxp7 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:51:00 +0000 http://themetabrowser.com/?p=612#comment-31 Have you read about the Ceton cable card products? "A single Ceton Multi-Channel Cable TV Card with a single CableCARD installed, and using a single RF cable connection, enables up to 6 live TV channels to be distributed around the home at once. So in a large home installation you could have 6 different TV sets in 6 different rooms each watching or recording (or some combination of watching and recording) a different show in HD at the same time. On top of that, an additional 2 or more TV sets (depending on the configuration) could be playing previously-recorded shows from the Media Center PC DVR, for a total of 8 or more TV sets watching at the same time from a single Media Center PC. Of course you could have other configurations as well such as: * 1 TV set watching live TV while the Media Center PC DVR records 5 other shows at the same time (6 live streams total) * 2 TV sets each recording 3 live shows at once (6 live streams total) * 2 TV sets watching different live TV channels while 2 other TV sets are each recording 2 different shows to the DVR (6 live streams total) * And on and on..." Windows 7 supports up to 4 tuners, so this may mean it only will support 4 streams, but still this sound awesome! I wonder if it will work with my ATI Digital Cable Tuner once that new firmware is released... Have you read about the Ceton cable card products?

“A single Ceton Multi-Channel Cable TV Card with a single CableCARD installed, and using a single RF cable connection, enables up to 6 live TV channels to be distributed around the home at once. So in a large home installation you could have 6 different TV sets in 6 different rooms each watching or recording (or some combination of watching and recording) a different show in HD at the same time. On top of that, an additional 2 or more TV sets (depending on the configuration) could be playing previously-recorded shows from the Media Center PC DVR, for a total of 8 or more TV sets watching at the same time from a single Media Center PC.

Of course you could have other configurations as well such as:

* 1 TV set watching live TV while the Media Center PC DVR records 5 other shows at the same time (6 live streams total)
* 2 TV sets each recording 3 live shows at once (6 live streams total)
* 2 TV sets watching different live TV channels while 2 other TV sets are each recording 2 different shows to the DVR (6 live streams total)
* And on and on…”

Windows 7 supports up to 4 tuners, so this may mean it only will support 4 streams, but still this sound awesome! I wonder if it will work with my ATI Digital Cable Tuner once that new firmware is released…

]]> By: <>< http://themetabrowser.com/2009/09/10/cablecards-and-oem-not-so-fast-my-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-30 <>< Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:42:59 +0000 http://themetabrowser.com/?p=612#comment-30 This is great news for cable subscribers...but what about Satellite users in the US :/....I use dish and as happy to find out that Dish Network showed off their Media Center tuner at CEDIA, hopefully something materializes from this and a product actually comes out for us consumers... This is great news for cable subscribers…but what about Satellite users in the US :/….I use dish and as happy to find out that Dish Network showed off their Media Center tuner at CEDIA, hopefully something materializes from this and a product actually comes out for us consumers…

]]> By: fantaxp7 http://themetabrowser.com/2009/09/10/cablecards-and-oem-not-so-fast-my-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-27 fantaxp7 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:31:33 +0000 http://themetabrowser.com/?p=612#comment-27 I love my ATI Digital Cable tuner and there really isn't anything comparable out there that competes with it. I was so happy when the hack came out that enabled its use on any motherboard. Now I am glad to see that it is no longer necessary. I do hope that either ATI makes more Digital Cable Tuners and keeps the prices reasonable or some other manufacturer puts one on the market. I am sure the units available now on ebay are going to continue to rise in price. I love my ATI Digital Cable tuner and there really isn’t anything comparable out there that competes with it. I was so happy when the hack came out that enabled its use on any motherboard. Now I am glad to see that it is no longer necessary.

I do hope that either ATI makes more Digital Cable Tuners and keeps the prices reasonable or some other manufacturer puts one on the market. I am sure the units available now on ebay are going to continue to rise in price.

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