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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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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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Only 443,000 CableCARDs deployed into consumer’s equipment

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Here we are about five years after CableCARDs became available and only 443,000 of ‘em have been deployed into 3rd party hardware — you know, like a TiVo HD or a Windows Media Center Digital Cable Tuner. If you think that’s a lot, think again, as that is barely 1 percent of the 41.5 million digital cable subscribers in the US. This was according to a report delivered to the FCC by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and really gives credibility to the CEA’s claim that the technology is ineffective at its intended purpose. As consumers we know all too well why the currently implementation of the technology is worthless to the other 99 percent of cable subscribers, which is a combination of the fact that 3rd party CableCARD host devices are not privy to all the same features of the cable company’s set-top — like VOD and PPV — but also because the cable operators do just about everything possible to talk you out of using them. Regardless of the reasons one thing is for sure, CableCARDs have not fulfilled the requirements set by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the FCC needs to stop wasting time and get back to the drawing board.

Only 443,000 CableCARDs deployed into consumer’s equipment originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:11:00 EST.

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Four New Windows 7 Advertisements Released

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Microsoft’s first Windows 7 advertisement, Good News 1, has only been around for about two weeks and today the software giant has begun airing an array of new advertisements. Unlike Good News 1, they focus more on new Windows 7 features:

Personalization: Your PC, Your Style shows the customization aspect in Windows 7 and features like themes and desktop gadgets.

Make your PC yours customize the theme, colors, sounds, and more with Windows 7.

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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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