Update 4/2: This post was an April Fool's day joke. An explanation about what it really is can be found here.

As a follow-up to our CES announcement of the Q, we are giving you a sneak peak of one of Q's siblings that we have been working on, codenamed MegaQ. The MegaQ shares its roots with the Q, but is designed for users that want a nearly limitless amount of TV viewing and recording in their home.

Like Q, MegaQ is a DVR based on Windows Embedded, however, MegaQ has been scaled up to exceed the needs of even the most demanding television viewers. Just like Q, it features whole-home DVR functionality, Universal Search, music and Internet TV support, along with no DVR "tax", but MegaQ also raises the bar for the number of simultaneous shows that can be recorded, and the number of hours of TV that can be retained to a level that was previously unimaginable.

Four Ceton Echo Windows Media Center extenders are integrated into the MegaQ itself with the full Windows Media Center Extender experience, including watching live and recorded TV in High-Definition to 5 local HDTVs allowing multiple simultaneous sports games. Up to 15 additional extenders are supported on a single MegaQ and can be connected via Ethernet or over the existing coaxial wiring found in your home via MoCA.

MegaQ features 10 Ceton InfiniTV 6 tuner cards, with ten CableCARDs allowing up to 60 HD programs to be recorded simultaneously. Now for the first time, you can record every football game and basketball game and baseball game and hockey game and golf tournament along with Desperate Housewives all at the same time. While specifications are subject to change, our prototypes currently feature an Intel Core i7 six-core i7-990X Extreme Edition CPU running at 3.46GHz, along with 32GB of RAM to handle the most demanding tasks. The system boots off of a lightning-quick 300GB Intel 320 series SSD, and up to 1800 hours of recorded High-Definition TV can be stored on the RAID 10 array of 4TB SATA hard drives, offering 12TB of usable storage, while the RAID protects against content loss due to hard drive failure. Also protecting against outages, MegaQ offers redundant, hot-swappable 520 watt power supplies. As a rack-mount 3U device, the MegaQ is designed to be mounted in a home's wiring closet. The MegaQ features both 10 gigabit Ethernet and MoCA connectivity which can be used for connecting additional Windows Media Center Extenders, such as additional Ceton Echo extenders.

We hope you've enjoyed our look at the Ceton MegaQ, and look forward to sharing more information on both the MegaQ, and other Ceton products, as we get closer to launch.