For more than a year enthusiasts in the Home Theater PC (HTPC) community have known Ceton as the Kirkland, WA company that delivered the first true PCIe, and until recently only, Digital Cable Tuner (DCT) available on the market ... they have introduced a new external USB member to their four tuner product line with planned availability on September 19th -- aptly named “InfiniTV 4 USB.” Pros: Stability, Form factor, Software ecosystem, including 10’ UI experience in Window 7 Media Center
Today we received a much anticipated package from a little company based out of Kirkland Washington. Of course it was the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB! ... Check back in a few days for a full review. We’ll be picking up yet another CableCARD and getting this beauty hooked up tomorrow!
Now it is Ceton's turn [for a Digital Cable Tuner review] because their newest tuner, the $299 InfiniTV 4 USB, arrived this afternoon ... The full review is coming when we have had a chance to really beat it up (it is looking good as we pass the six hour mark in the single PC stress test) and test the device's capabilities as a standalone and shared resource.
Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont at Tekzilla discuss InfiniTV 4 USB (time stamp: 07:10)
Ceton's going outside the box. The family-run Kirkland hardware company today announced an external, plug-in version of its TV tuner for Windows PCs ... The setup lets you replace cable company set-top boxes with a PC, which can stream the live and recorded TV around the home using "extender" devices such as an Xbox 360 console.
In what is sure to excite home theatre PC's enthusiasts, Ceton is now offering an external USB version of their PCI Express-based InfiniTV CableCARD TV tuner. The all new InfiniTV 4 USB still allows you to watch and record up to 4 premium cable HDTV channels on any Windows rigs but now you need not tie your fancy device down to one system!
Check out the DMZ podcast on Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (InfiniTV portion starts at timestamp 15:55).
Excerpts:
* "How well does it work? Frankly, fantastically."
* "I had zero reliability issues with it."
* "At $299 for a 4-tuner device it's really kind of hard to beat it because it just works so well."
Check out the DMZ podcast on Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (InfiniTV portion starts at timestamp 15:55).
Excerpts:
* "How well does it work? Frankly, fantastically."
* "I had zero reliability issues with it."
* "At $299 for a 4-tuner device it's really kind of hard to beat it because it just works so well."
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!
Ceton has wasted no time launched their new InfiniTV 4 USB CableCARD TV tuners after receiving official CableLabs certification ... The InfiniTV 4 with its USB connection makes it easy for you to bring cable TV to any Windows 7-based PC, including laptops, tablets, All-in-One PCs, desktops, towers and home theatre PCs.