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CableCARD Out At HP Again?

It’s been a long ride for CableCARD at HP in the last month.  First they introduced the cheapest CableCARD PCs at $1500, then the disappeared a week later, reappeared a week later, and are now gone again.

Introduced May 9, disappeared May 19, reappeared May 26, and disappeared June 9 again.  If anyone out there at HP is reading, please let me know if it’s just a stock issue with the Digital Cable Tuners.  Hard to suggest anyone buying one if they keep going on the market on a weekly basis.  Oh, also let me know when you will be selling extra Digital Cable Tuners to go with the single tuner system (Part # GL282-69001).

Published Sun, Jun 10 2007 14:07 by chrisl
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# re: CableCARD Out At HP Again?

Try as as anyone might,  its near impossible to secure one of these tuners from the grips of HPs hands.

I work in hp warranty repair and the item is never in stock.  It is also listed as "non-orderable" for any reason what-so-ever.

Even if I ever could order it... the steep price of $510 is a turn-off when the configured with a HP machine it only adds +$300

Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:11 PM by Zig

# re: CableCARD Out At HP Again?

HP has added the CableCard tuner option back again today. It must be a stock issue.

Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:57 AM by Rob

# re: CableCARD Out At HP Again?

I purchased one of these and received it ~7/6; when I started it up it sounded like a table saw (nice feature for a media PC) and I shut it down after ~1 minute as the sound got worse instead of better.  I tried to exchange it with the exact same configuration and HP initially attempted to exchange it for one without the digital tuner which I caught when I checked the status online.  When I contacted HP they said that they are not selling the digital tuner at this time (7/10) due to "problems with current configuration".  I sent the PC back for a refund.

Friday, July 13, 2007 11:45 AM by Tony