DVR Lovers Your Messiah Cometh and Thy Name is Ceton

[Vegetatheprince]

Surprised no posts on this godly tuner card to be.

Release date: 3/31/10

A single multistream cablecard, four-tuner TV tuner card that may actually make my Xbox interesting again. Supposedly it was built from scratch in a way that will probably leave it the only kid in its neighborhood for some time.

One downside to it is that I'm fairly certain you need Windows 7 to use it but I could be wrong. The $400 price may seem bad but that's pretty damn reasonable considering there's only two single-tuner cablecard tuners on the market and they're like over $200 still.

Locally for me, Comcast is pushing out all non-boxed tv sets requiring anyone who wants to see a non-broadcast station to get a shit box from them to see it or find something to function with a cablecard. The current cablecard tuner selection to date is limited to put it nicely.

With this fun little card on a Windows 7 system and two Xboxes or other Media Center extenders, you can watch TV at three different spots at once while recording a fourth -- in hd, including your cable's encrypted channel selection (generally anything 100+ and any premium channels you receive). And that's on one cablecard that your local cable company MUST provide for free (or if not, no more than $2 and change/month).

Also, 1 HD DVR from Comcast = 19/month. So in less than 2 years, compared to paying comcast 19/month for their HD DVR the card is actually an upgrade financially. Not to mention that it is capable of 2x the tuners, far more storage, and multi room viewing.


If its not your cup of tea, however, there's always your local cable comanies HD DVR. I hear Comcast's is very functional and you will get 230,572 HD options from OnDemand. /s

[Killgannon]

AT&T Uverse already does this... /yawn

edit: also no way id ever use windows as a dvr box, linux support or