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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:12 PM

Short Bits: HD PVR, mceShoutCast, My Movies

Brent Evans has confirmed that Hauppauge's HD PVR has officially been delayed until at least mid-May. Check out the full post for exact expected ship times based on order number. eHomeUpgrade points to a new ShoutCast plug-in for Vista Media Center...
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Monday, April 28, 2008 8:09 PM

Short Bits: Lifeware, 64-bit HD-PVR, Dragon

Audio Video Interiors has a great article on Life|ware, more specially the Life|ware install in Exceptional Innovation founder Seale Moorer . If someone wanted a prime example of how MCML has impacted third party products then look no further then the...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:11 PM

Hauppauge HD-PVR Letdowns

The much hyped HD-PVR (Component capture device) from Hauppauge has hit its first snag. First of all, it ships with no 64-bit support , and worse only single tuner support ! I wasn’t surprised by the 64-bit news, but I’m shocked at the single tuner. I...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 8:08 PM

Short Bits: HD-PVR, Home Server, Online Spotlight

Hauppauge put up the pre-order form for their HD-PVR 1212 that I talked about last week . Especially if you are ordering with Media Center in mind know that it will not work out-of-the-box, Media Center can’t support the video format it is pushing out...
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Friday, April 04, 2008 8:36 PM

Short Bits: Media Center Show, Hauppauge HD-PVR, CableCARD

Ian Dixon had Scott Evans from Microsoft on The Media Center Show this week along with AMD talking about AMD Live! A lot of information dropped today about Hauppauge HD-PVR’s Component Capture device . I’ve been meaning to do a whole big post about this...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:25 PM

AverMedia Releases QAM Plug-in for Bravo Hybrid PCIe

AVerMedia has released beta QAM plug-in/driver that work within Media Center for their Bravo Hybrid PCIe tuner card . Much like the existing beta QAM plug-in for the AVerTV Combo PCIe x1 M780 , this will enable your Bravo Hybird to tune unencrypted QAM...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:50 AM

BOCR CableCARD Tuners (M-Card) Coming Soon From Ceton Corp?

I’ve talked about OCUR being an open spec before, the idea that anyone can actually build them assuming they want to play around with CableLabs. I’ve also talked about Bidirectional OpenCable Receiver (BOCR) before , the idea being new CableCARD tuners...
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Friday, October 26, 2007 9:03 AM

AVerMedia Does QAM in Vista Media Center

AVerMedia has released a beta plug-in to allow unencrypted QAM (aka Clear QAM) support in Vista Media Center. AVerMedia Product Manger Felix Kolotinsky posted about it last week on The Green Button as well as offered a link to the beta plug-in on their...
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Monday, October 15, 2007 1:02 PM

AMD Introduces New Tuner Products to Deliver Exceptional HDTV on PCs

Expands industry’s premier placeshifting TV-on-the-PC portfolio with addition of TV Wonder™ 650 Combo USB and TV Wonder™ 600 PCI/PCI Express Sunnyvale, Calif. -- October 15, 2007 --AMD is expanding its TV Wonder™ product lineup that enables HDTV on the...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:28 AM

Short Bits: DRM, Vista SP1, Xbox 360, More

Hard to think people are just now getting around to talking about the DRM crap made by Peter Gutmann and Bruce Schneier. I went after Schneier in Feburary , but it’s hard to imagine that these “professionals” up into the ring without knowledge of any...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:55 PM

Vista View Saber DA-1N1-I Review

The folks at Vista View were nice enough to send me one of their latest cards, the Saber DA-1N1-I to test out for a bit. This review is coming a bit late because I was a bit under the weather when I first got the card and the last thing I was up for was...
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