The Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB is one of the cooler items we're featuing in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. It basically turns your computer into a fully-functional live TV DVR. We know that features like Media Center exist on PCs, but the problem is that, until now, it's been hard to get a good signal into your computer. The InfiniTV 4 USB fixes that.
What can we say about the InfiniTV 4 that we haven’t already? Ceton’s pair of CableCARD TV tuners have been solid performers and offer a great value when looking at the cost on a per-tuner basis.
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe: Is regarded as the most stable option [among all CableCARD tuners]. Ceton’s tuners offer rock-solid performance.
Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB: Is a great option for small-form-factor (SFF) PCs that don’t have an internal expansion slot. It can also share its tuners across the network utilizing a Windows Media Center plugin like the PCIe version.
The DIY-inclined TV lover on your list knows what's up -- why put up with frustrating cable company DVRs when you can build your own? Ceton's InfiniTV 4 CableCARD tuner can turn a basic PC into a DVR easily, while also allowing for endless tweaking and extra capabilities not easily found on other platforms.
For over a year I’ve been enjoying the internal version of the Ceton InfiniTV 4--an almost flawless TV tuner card marred only by its need for a PCI slot. Its new USB sibling, aptly named the InfiniTV 4 USB ($299 as of October 25, 2011), brings the same four-tuner goodness to laptops, slot-challenged desktops, and […]
Want to turn your Windows 7-powered PC into a killer DVR, one that requires no monthly fees and has potentially limitless storage? ... When you use your PC to record shows, you’ll have a lot more freedom to do what you want with them. If you want to keep shows forever, you can. ... And […]
Ceton has released a cool gadget that will turn your Windows 7 desktop or laptop into a streaming cable box. Called the InfiniTV 4 USB, it allows users to watch and record up to four live channels of HDTV at once, using their hard drive as a DVR. It will also stream live HD channels or recordings to multiple HDTVs throughout the home via a Media Center Extender like the Xbox 360 console. All it needs is a cable connection and a single CableCARD...
Adding a home theater PC just got a little easier. Ceton Corporation just started selling its InfiniTV 4 USB digital cable tuner. This little box can turn pretty much any Windows 7 PC into the perfect device to pair with that big-screen setup. Of course, we know that most of you probably have a cable box. The InfiniTV 4 one-ups a lot of those components by adding in all of the storage that your PC can handle—as well as the ability to watch and record four (4!) live high-definition cable channels at once.
Ceton’s new device, the InfiniTV 4 USB ... gives the ability to record four shows at once from a small USB box that can be connected to virtually any Windows 7 PC ... One thing was never in doubt with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB: its reliability. We recorded over 100 shows in a weekend, typically with four being recorded at a time, on the AMD box, and it didn’t miss a single recording. It simply worked every single time we tried to record something!
If you want to build your own cable box and are using Windows 7 … this is the way to go.