Christmas came early this year, at least for those of us eagerly awaiting Ceton's once fabled InfiniTV 4 Quad CableCARD Tuner.
When it comes to watching cable television via the Ceton InfiniTV 4 everything just works ... When it comes to whether or not I would recommend the card, the answer is absolutely: yes! ... To put it simply, the Ceton InfiniTV 4 is Media Center paradise! I’ve never once been concerned about running out of tuners, and every channel that my cable company provides to me is viewable, even the premium channels in high definition.
Being able to record four different channels at the same time epitomizes the notion of a power-user's HTPC ... Ceton's InfiniTV 4 can transform your home-theater PC into the ultimate set-top box.
On Thursday, April 8th [Ceton] sent a letter of their own to the FCC to try to get their views across ... Ceton made it abundantly clear that they think that CableCARD is really just now starting to make real progress in the market.
Up until recently if you wanted to have a Media Center that recorded your cable pay channels, you had to buy an certified Windows Media Center. That changed last year when Microsoft opened up the platform allowing any of us to build Media Centers that rely on CableCard. The last mile problem that remained was in finding a tuner that would take a cable card. Ceton has done just that and are taking pre-orders on a PCIe card that will allow you to record up to 4 HD streams at once.
But every so often something totally different comes our way, something that does get us excited ... the new InfiniTV 4 from Ceton easily qualifies. We mean who wouldn't get excited about being able to record 4 HD shows at once and from any channel you want? This is especially true when you consider how difficult it's been for HTPC fans to record premium content until now. Well it seems that for HD loving HTPC fans, your time has finally come, now anyone can build there own DVR that can do things that no other DVR can ...
We all know that technology will not be denied, but there seem to be a lot of pieces that have to fall into place before Mr. and Mrs. Middle America will be using their PC as a set-top box. But I may be missing something, so I turned your questions over to Ed Graczyk, Ceton's CMO and a Microsoft TV veteran. Here's what Ed has to say:
That's right, you can now reserve your place in line to be the first to record four HD cable shows at once on your Windows 7 Media Center.
Ceton Corporation has announced the launch of the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner card, which it bills as the word's first four-tuner digital cable solution for Windows 7 PC's with Windows Media Center.
Larry Larsen of Microsoft's Channel 9 interviews Ceton CEO Gary Hammer at CES. "This PCIe card will let you install a CableCard in your PC and record up to four HD channels at once. At one booth at CES, they were running two of these cards in one PC, and who wouldn't want to record 8 HD channels at the same time? I met up with Gary Hammer, the President and CEO of Ceton Corporation at CES and asked him some questions about their new TV Tuner."