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.