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CableCARD Opens Up, but Does the Marketplace?

The news at CEDIA that CableCARD will now be open to all has got everyone worked up about Microsoft getting things right and that the platform is back where it needs to be. However, while the news of CableCARD getting unlocked from OEM only machines is fantastic I’m not sure it chances much in...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Sep 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, CableCARD, TV Tuners, Windows 7
Microsoft Enhances the Digital Cable Experience and Names 2009 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Winner

Customers get new capabilities, more options, and a better digital cable experience in Windows Media Center. ATLANTA, Sept. 9 -- Today at CEDIA EXPO 2009, Microsoft Corp. discussed key Windows Media Center features for Windows 7 and announced a series of initiatives that enhance the digital cable experience...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Sep 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, CableCARD, Home Automation, TV Tuners, Windows 7
Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

Reports suggest that the Digital TV switch in the US went by with little confusion or problems. Of course, if you rely on Windows Media Center your experience likely wasn’t in line with those reports. Ben said the transition is causing grief for Media Center users , but for most that might be an...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sun, Jun 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
Can DISH Network One-Up DIRECTV?

Now that we are fairly certain that DIRECTV will not ship with Windows 7 , the big question remains to be will DISH Network? Around the time the TV Pack started beta testing, I did hear that some testers had been contacted about testing DISH Network Tuners , and that talk has popped back up in the past...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Dec 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Home Server, DIRECTV/Dish, TV Tuners, Windows 7
DIRECTV and Microsoft: What Went Wrong

Now that DIRECTV has suspended development on their HDPC-20 Tuner where does that leave us? There are a lot of differing opinions going around about why DIRECTV canned the tuner, whose fault it is, and where do we go from here. Most people are pointing the finger at Microsoft, and with their history...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Dec 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, DIRECTV/Dish, TV Tuners, Windows 7
DIRECTV Kills Media Center Tuner; Windows 7 to be DIRECTV-less

DIRECTV has informed several bloggers and journalists in the Media Center community that they suspended development of the HDCP-20 Media Center Tuner. Windows 7 will not include native DIRECTV support, which will servely impact the Media Center platform as a whole. I’ll have more on this later...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Dec 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, DIRECTV/Dish, TV Tuners, Windows 7
Microsoft Launches New Worldwide Platform for Broadcast TV on the PC

Leading tuner and chipset providers announce support for new Microsoft platform. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Sept. 12, 2008 — Today at IBC2008, Microsoft Corp. announced it has delivered in the marketplace Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA), Microsoft’s new worldwide platform...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Sep 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, TV Tuners
Microsoft and Hauppauge First to Bring Freeview-Certified PC Solution to U.K. Viewers

Windows Media Center meets requirements for Freeview certification to deliver enhanced TV content to the PC. READING, U.K. — Sept. 10, 2008 — Microsoft Corp., working with tuner manufacturer Hauppauge Computer Works Inc., today announced the launch of the first Freeview-certified, PC-based...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Sep 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
Microsoft Expands TV Signal Support in Japan

A few months ago I said that Microsoft was planning on finally taking TV signal support in Media Center global , but little did I know that Japan would be the first to see the improved support. This past Friday Microsoft announced several new broadcast and hardware partners for Media Center in Japan...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Jun 14 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
Short Bits: HD PVR, Windows 7, Media Center Show, Akimbo

Brent Evans has (almost) all your answers on the HD PVR that finally has started shipping . And remember, it doesn’t work with Media Center (yet?). Joe Wilcox has Eight Things About Windows 7 following Microsoft’s first public demo of the OS at All Things D. Overall I think Windows 7 is going to be more...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, May 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Media Center PC's, Streaming, TV Tuners, Windows 7
Pinnacle Releases Unencrypted QAM Plug-in for PCTV HD Card

Joining the party of Hauppauge , AVerMedia , and SiliconDust (HDHomeRun), Pinnacle has released unencrypted QAM drivers /plug-in for their PCTV HD Card (800i). General beta driver guidelines apply (backup first!), but be aware that the first user at The Green Button to try them out had pretty poor results...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, May 23 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
Short Bits: Fiji, Netflix, HD PVR

Mary Jo says Fiji is out for beta testing , but I wouldn’t know anything about that. Last night Netflix announced their first hardware partner for their stream STB, and it turns out that it is Roku . Kind of an interesting choice, but Dave covers why some might have seen it coming. The bad news, it is...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, May 20 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Streaming, TV Tuners
Hauppauge Releases QAM Plug-in for Vista Media Center

Hauppauge has taken tourch from AVerMedia and created an unencrypted QAM plug-in for Vista Media Center. It is supported on the HVR-1250, HVR-1600, HVR-1800, and HVR-2250. Both Windows Vista x86 and x64 are supported as well, other information can be found here . This is a beta plug-in, so as always...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, May 14 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
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 ( English translation ). It's MCML that has...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Apr 30 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
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 UI for Life|ware. Hauppauge reps are now saying they...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Apr 28 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
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’m not exactly sure if the single tuner support is...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Apr 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
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. Hopefully Hauppauge can add support by years end...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Apr 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Home Server, TV Tuners
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 and how it relates to Media Center and other products...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Apr 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, DIRECTV/Dish, TV Tuners
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 from within Media Center. You can download the beta...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sun, Mar 30 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, TV Tuners
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 will work with two-way communication and have M...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sun, Nov 4 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, CableCARD, TV Tuners

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