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Archive for category 3. Media Center

CableCARD tuners come to SageTV via SageMCTuner

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SageMCTuner diagram

With the main obstacles for adoption of CableCARD tuners in Home Theater PCs gone it just makes sense that even those who don’t use Windows Media Center would want to get in on the fun. If only it was that simple, with CableLabs holding the keys to the kingdom, not just anyone can build software that will work with a CableCARD tuner and expect it to work. Good news for Sage TV fans, as the genius who came up with our favorite Media Center plugin (DVRMSToolBox) has now come up with a nifty work around. SageMCTuner is still in beta, but the idea is to put Media Center to work for Sage. So in other words, Media Center is still doing all the recordings etc, but Sage is calling all the shots and reaping all the benefits. If you want the full details you’ll have to click through and try it yourself, go ahead, we’ll be waiting for your return to hear how it worked out — we bet it goes pretty well.

CableCARD tuners come to SageTV via SageMCTuner originally appeared on Engadget HD on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:07:00 EST.

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A brief history of Ceton and its 6-tuner CableCARD HTPC tuner

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The Seattle Times sat down with Ceton, and the entire Hammer family that founded the company, and uncovered some pretty interesting details about the Kirkland, WA startup. Lucky for Windows Media Center fans — when Gary and Pamela Hammer’s son Jeremy graduated from college with a engineering degree, the entire family decided to start a new company, which designed the first multi-stream CableCARD tuner for HTPCs. Without going into all the details here, we did enjoy learning about the origins of the company as well as the fact that a yet to be announced dual tuner version of the the quad tuner card should sell for less than $300. We’ve been excited about this product since CES 2009, but as we get closer and stories like this surface we can hardly contain our anticipation.

A brief history of Ceton and its 6-tuner CableCARD HTPC tuner originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:26:00 EST.

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Part 2: Hide your noisy Xbox 360 in your basement, Watch it in your bedroom

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I have gotten many emails regarding my Hide your noisy Xbox 360 in your basement, Watch it in your bedroom post.

This post is just a follow up with images, taken after pulling the Cat5E wire from the basement to my attic and back down to my bedroom.

The image quality is not the best as the digital camera seems to live in my wife’s purse, so iPhone snapshots will have to do for now.

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Media Center’s Holy Grail – Cablecard support for everyone with SDV!!

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From the Microsoft’s MCE event at CEDIA:

OEM requirement on CableCARDs has been officially lifted.

SDV

The photo above sums it up nicely — the digitally insane can now add CableCARD tuners to their PC.

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HD Cablebox/STB in Windows 7 Media Center in REAL HD!!

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DVBLink for HDPVR allows watching prime HDTV in Windows Media Center with a regular set-top-box’s.

The Hauppauge HD PVR box allows you to get your set-top-box HD output and bring it into a computer, thus allowing you to build a PC-based Personal Video Recorder. While there are a few software packages compatible with the HD PVR box out there, up until now there was no way to bring that HD feed into Windows Media Center.

DVBLink for HDPVR does just that! It is a product based on the dvblink framework that acts as a bridge between the HD PVR box and Windows Media Center. It gives you SD/HD video playback with AC3 5.1 surround sound. Here is a list of features supported by DVBLink for HDPVR:

  • High-Definition H.264 Video with AC3 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound
  • Native set-top-box control using:
    • HD PVR’s integrated IR Blaster
    • Any MCE-compatible IR blaster
    • Firestb (x86 only) I will be using this method as the rest are unreliable and slow.
  • Full Media Center TV Guide support
  • UPNP Server to stream live TV to UPNP-enabled clients
  • Supports Windows Media Center Extenders that support H.264 inside of a WTV file.  Xbox 360’s Only Linksys and Dlink Extenders Need not apply!
  • All the goods that Windows Media Center has to offer… DRM free!

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