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CableCARD
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For the longest time SonyStyle.com was the only
place that you would buy standalone Digital Cable Tuners. However a month or so ago Sony pulled out of
the market and only started selling refurbished tuners at a discount. However, most of Read More
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Ed Bott has a great post on why CableCARD will never be
mainstream. Not only is the process
of getting a CableCARD and having it paired a problem, but the lack of
troubleshooting information (or rather the need for troubleshooting at all) Read More
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From distributed
HD entertainment to automation and control, Windows Media Center is at the
center of an ever-expanding ecosystem within the custom installation channel.
DENVER — Sept. 4, 2008 — At CEDIA EXPO 2008,
Microsoft Corp. announced Read More
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Today Microsoft made public their intensions to support
Switched Digital Video (SDV) within Windows Media Center. While details are limited, Charlie Nilsson,
Program Manager for the NetOps TV Team at Microsoft posted on The Green
Button about Read More
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This edition ripped straight from CE Pro…It seems Niveus Media is done with pushing their
recently developed Niveus EDGE Extender. The might have been Xbox 360-based Extender (sans gaming) is out and the HP MediaSmart
Connect is in. Read More
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Award-winning Niveus Media Server – Vail Edition integrates
technologies to provide a high-performance entertainment experience.
Milpitas, CA – August 27, 2008 – Niveus Media is teaming up
with ADI to distribute the newest Niveus Read More
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It has always been hard to stomach the DRM variations that
CableLabs has set up between OCURs and UDCP devices like TiVo’s. TiVo
gets the ability to have non-DRM recordings if the content provider hasn’t
flagged the broadcast at all Read More
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On Friday Cannon PC
demoed a system recording
from six CableCARDs all at once, while playing back a recording and the
system didn’t skip a beat. This was demoed in the YouTube video,
but I got some higher resolution screenshots of Media Center Read More
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June 18, 2008 - Cannon PC, LP demonstrated a capability of their
Media Centers to accommodate 6 Digital Cable Cards and simultaneously
record 6 different HD Digital Cable Channels.Cannon
PC, the award winning Media Center specialty company, demonstrated Read More
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No doubt that CableCARD has turned out to be a less than stellar
technology from a stability point of view, but could Dell be a big reason why
CableCARD seems so unstable? As a part
of Microsoft’s
investigation into “Restricted Content” errors Read More
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Cannon PC, LP announced
its Direct OEM partnership with Microsoft and will be offering a Digital
CableCARD on its Home Series and Pro A/V Series Media Centers.May 25, 2008 – Cannon PC, the award winning Media Center specialty
company, announced Read More
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Niveus Media has released another exclusive
plug-in for Niveus owners, this time they have got your basic weather needs
covered. Niveus Weather looks very nice based on the
screenshots and I assume it is MCML also. (Via
Missing Remote).
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Dave
Zatz posted some of the first photos of the upcoming SDV Tuning Adaptor
(TA) today and it brings up some interesting questions on whether or not they
will work with OCURs on the PC.
First, let’s take a step back to last year when I asked
CableLabs Read More
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I’ve covered the fact that CableLabs
has said they are not focusing the upcoming Tuning Resolver (TR) on OCURs, and
this has become more evident in the actual specifications for the TR.
OCURs, which are PC-based Digital Cable Tuners (like ATIs)
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ATI/AMD has posted version 1.17.1 firmware for Digital Cable
Tuners (OCUR/CableCARD). The update is
said to fix several issues including Multiple OCUR having the same IP address
and “No TV Signal” errors when tuning twice on the same Read More
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