Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, Ceton announced two new products to compliment their existing four-tuner PCI-E card that we reviewed last year. First up is a four-tuner external USB device that should help to serve the segment of the Windows Media Center community who use small-form-factor devices, such as Acer Aspire Revos, or any other computer that doesn’t have an internal PCI-Express slot. Also announced today by the Kirkland, Washington based company was an internal six-tuner PCI-E card.
Based around a Sandy Bridge Intel CPU, this machine runs Windows Media Center and gives you access to all the internet-connected content that you can enjoy on your Windows 7-equipped PC, but it also boasts a InfiniTV 6 CableCARD tuner that permits up to six HD broadcast TV streams at a time. Those can then be networked out throughout your house -- whether over a wireless or wired connection -- and then recorded on whatever laptops, desktops or other Windows devices you have lying around the house.
Windows Media Center is awesome, especially if you pair it with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 card. Seriously, it's better than TiVo.
Want a no-limits DVR to record all your favorite shows on cable? Robert Heron talks recording four channels of HDTV simultaneously and why the Ceton InfiniTV 4 is the ultimate HTPC CableCARD adapter!
The advantage of owning the InfiniTV 4 Tuner is fairly straightforward: it allows you to record four TV shows at once in Windows Media Center, using a single CableCard…Quite popular, the company is still filling pre-orders … this is one line we think is worth waiting in.
For longtime fans of Windows Media Center, the InfiniTV 4 is the answer to a prayer. Once installed, it bestows four digital tuners, each able to show and/or record high-definition and premium channels. As one of those longtime fans, I'm happy to report it works--and it's awesome.
As a long time Windows Media Center user, the holy grail of TV viewing for me was the ability to watch and record digital cable signals ... That reality is finally here with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 card allowing me to use my Windows 7 Media Center setup that I built from various parts I had laying around to watch and capture all the cable channels I subscribed to.
The InfiniTV4 is a PCIe based card that has 4 television tuners built onto one adapter. I have been using the InfiniTV 4-tuner card for over a month now and it’s a beautiful piece of work ... I haven’t had a lick of trouble since installing the card and find that it just works without thinking about it. A pleasant surprise in the world of PCs and cable cards to be sure.
DIY home-theater PC builders have waited a long time for a product like Ceton’s InfiniTV 4. Drop one of these cards in your machine, insert the multi-stream CableCARD you acquired from your digital cable–TV service provider, and use Windows Media Center to watch high-definition TV and record as many as four simultaneous high-definition streams—including encrypted premium content such as HBO and Showtime. Boom! Your PC is now a four-tuner DVR cum media server, and you can dump your service-provider’s lousy set-top box.
InfiniTV 4 offered an incredible upgrade to my Windows Media Center PC. Ceton’s work here with their InfiniTV 4 TV tuner card is a great example of a product from one of our partners that takes Windows to a whole different level and makes a good feature (Windows Media Center) great. After I completed the upgrade of my Windows Media Center PC - my living room’s digital entertainment experience was simply awesome.