While most of the FCC’s new Broadband plan has been about, well, broadband, there’s also some great news for HDTV fans. We expected a few mentions about CableCARD and its future when the FCC requested comments and declared it a failure , but we’re still glad to see that the FCC listened to consumer electronics companies like TiVo and Sony — among others.
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A CableCARD replacement is due by December 2012, bandaids by this Fall
We had a feeling that after Microsoft removed the draconian OEM requirement from Windows 7 Media Center that we’d see more CableCARD tuners and we’re glad to say we were right. The original ATSC/QAM HDHomeRun was love at first sight for us three years ago, so we were very pleased to learn that the crew over at Silicon Dust was working on a network based CableCARD tuner .
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HDHomeRun developing a dual CableCARD network tuner for $249
We love Windows Media Center but without access to our favorite HD content it just isn’t that interesting. So obviously we got excited when we first learned that Ceton planned to release a PCI-E card that would allow us to record four HD shows at once with a single CableCARD, but the question has been, how much?
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Ceton’s quad CableCARD tuner for Windows Media Center gets a price
A packaging mixup may have revealed the next DVR coming from TiVo .
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TiVo planning a new "Premiere" DVR?
Well we have to say we never saw this coming, but have dreamed of it for years, but it appears that the FCC is actually listening to the CEA and is asking for comments on how to replace CableCARD with something that would actually make the network open. For those just catching up, Congress mandated that cable had to be open with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 — yeah that long — and 3rd party CableCARD devices first became available in 2004 and five years later there are only 14 3rd party certified devices and 443k 3rd party devices in service .
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Hell freezes over, the FCC admits that CableCARD is a failure
Scant hours after the SDV tuning, DRM-relaxing firmware update for Vista and Windows 7 Digital Cable Tuner users became available, Missing Remote let us know Microsoft has come through on the other half of its CEDIA promise by pushing the Digital Cable Advisor to Media Center Extras galleries everywhere.
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Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today
Look, Moblin and MIDs and USB 3.0 are all well and good, but the real highlight of IDF is hiding in plain sight: it’s Intel’s CE 3100 Media Processor -based Tru2way DVR server, which has three digital cable tuners that can be streamed over a regular gigabit Ethernet or MoCA to any number of clients, ranging from other 3100-based set-top boxes to DLNA devices like laptops and even the PS3. It’s seriously cool — the clients all see the server’s tuners as their own, so the experience is seamless, and since it all runs on the Tru2way stack, it doesn’t matter what kind of client you plug in — the three clients on the show floor were running interfaces from Intel, Comcast (Rovi), and Digeo. Of course, since it’s a DVR, you can actually add more clients than tuners and have them play back recorded content while your other boxes use the tuners — Intel was demoing XBMC on a Sony laptop connecting over DLNA and streaming a recorded program while a PS3 nearby ran a photo slideshow, all while the three cable clients streamed uncompressed HD video from the tuners.
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Video: Intel Tru2way server streams cable all over your house
Although Apple has always referred to the Apple TV as a “hobby,” there’s been a lot of speculation regarding the future of the box recently — it was first introduced nearly three years ago, and although the interface has since been upgraded , it’s still essentially the same product, leading to whispers that Apple was working on a new DVR-enabled model with CableCARD tuners that would replace your cable box.
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Apple CFO says DVR, CableCARD not coming to Apple TV
You know, with the PS3 slumming it in a lower weight class and $300 price point , you’d think it’d be hard to sell people on costlier “Blu-ray Digital Entertainment Systems,” but that hasn’t stopped Okoro from trying. Updating its BX300 unit with dual Blu-ray Lightscribe drives, a Core i7-920, 6GB of 1,333MHz DDR3, pair of hot swappable 2TB HDDs in RAID1, and a 64GB SSD for OS duties is all well and good (okay, it’s kind of awesome), but — even though it has come down some — the price is still a loony $3,095. There are also dual NTSC / ATSC / QAM tuners and a CableCARD option to go along with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 — and for an extra $800, you can get the slinkier touch pad remote-pimping version pictured on the right
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Okoro OMS-BX300 goes for the ‘you must be high’ end
If you’ve ever thought about forcing your Xbox 360 to do double duty and in addition to all the games you require it to host for you, set it up to replace your TiVo or cable company DVR, then now might just be the time. The reason is simple, in Windows 7, Microsoft has really made some nice improvements to Windows Media Center.
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Engadget HD takes an in-depth look at Media Center in Windows 7 RTM
