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 showing the six streams at once. Given the system resources...
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 to a select group of people the capability of...
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 on CableCARD PCs we have learned a lot, specifically about...
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 May 25th its partnership with Microsoft and will be offering...
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 ). Mike is back with another Life with a Plug-in review which today...
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 if the Tuning Adaptor (formally Tuning Resolver...
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) are not even referenced in the TR specifications. That isn...
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 channel. You can download the 32-bit update here and 64-bit update...
A few weeks ago Dell ended their special pricing on Digital Cable Tuners , taking them from $180 for a single tuner to $255 for a single tuner. That didn’t last for too long though. Now Dell has lowered the price to $199 for a single tuner and $379 for dual tuners. This move puts an entry level XPS 420...
With Dell’s ending of their Digital Cable Tuner sale , HP has taken the lead in the mainstream CableCARD desktop price battle. You can now pickup an HP m9200t that includes a single CableCARD tuner for as low as $1,099. Dell on the other hand will cost you $1,304 for the lowest spec’ed XPS 420 with a...