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Posts Tagged Media

CableCARD tuners come to SageTV via SageMCTuner

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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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ATI Radeon HD 5750 brings HDMI bliss to HTPCs for $110

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ATI Radeon HD 5750

We knew that video cards that could bitstream all the latest HD codecs wouldn’t always cost $380, but we certainly didn’t expect a cheaper alternative in two weeks. Of course price and HDMI audio capabilities aren’t the only factors when choosing a video card for your HTPC, so you might want to keep waiting — you know another few weeks — for a version that doesn’t take up two of your card slots for a fan that is no doubt anything but quiet. Anandtech is predicting you might have to wait another year for the prefect HTPC video card in the way of the 5600 series.

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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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Almost 1000 Followers on Twitter! Time For a Contest!!!!

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Technorambings of the Digitally Insane has reached nearly 1000 followers @ www.twitter.com/technoramblings

To celebrate the occasion we are having a contest!

The 500th and 1000th user to register on www.technoramblings.info will each receive a free copy of the XBOX 360 Version of Sega Superstars Tennis.

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The 1500th registered user on www.technoramblings.info will win one Linksys DMA-2100 Media Center Extender*

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If you are not already signed up you can use the Register link in the Log In sidebar on this page now!
*Extender is used however it is fully functional and comes with remote control power supply and HDMI cable.
Tested and working with both Windows Vista and Windows 7 Media Center.

Contest is opened between 10-5-2009 and 11-1-2009 When the winners will be announced. Registration must take place on the actual blog at http://technoramblings.info.

Twitter follows do not count toward the contest registration. 

All registrations will be verified and the winners will be contacted by the email address used to sign up.
Emails not responded to within 24 hours of the contest's end will be invalidated and another winner will be chosen. Winners must live in the United States of America, and have a valid postal address.
P.O. Boxes will not be accepted. No overseas shipping.

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first video card to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD

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ATI Radeon HD 5870

The good news is that you can finally get both compressed and uncompressed HD audio off a Blu-ray Disc and into your A/V receiver without the need of a dedicated sound card. The bad news is that at $380, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 still costs more than a stand-alone Blu-ray player and that price doesn’t even include playback software. That’s ok with us though, as we’re used to being charged early adopter tax, and now the first video card with this ability is released, it should only be a matter of time before this feature trickles down to video cards we can actually afford.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first video card to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:00 EST.

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