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[15 Aug 2010 | Comments | 2,799 views]
CableLabs Approves Tuner Sharing and DRM Free Copy Freely Content

One of the features that the Ceton InfiniTV4 was poised to offer was tuner sharing.  This would allow you to have your InfiniTV4 in one HTPC and assign tuners to other HTPCs in your home.  Unfortunately CableLabs put the kibosh on this rather quickly.
Luckily, they’ve seen the light and as of Friday, tuner sharing is now approved in OCUR devices.  That means you can install multiple tuners in a single PC and spread them throughout your home.  While Ceton will obviously be the first to benefit from this new feature …

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[11 Apr 2010 | Comments | 1,929 views]
Ceton Lobbies the FCC to Not Abandon CableCARD

We saw back in December that the FCC had basically called CableCARD a failed attempt to bring openness to the cable industry. They didn’t simply leave it at that though. The FCC then asked for ideas from the industry for ways to be improve the locked-down situation that currently plagues the cable set-top box market. Most figured the FCC would be inundated with requests to completely do away with CableCARD in place of a completely new standard.
Ceton isn’t like most companies in the industry though. On Thursday, April 8th the …

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[12 Mar 2010 | Comments | 1,252 views]
Ceton Delays Quad CableCard Tuner

It’s been a long time since I can remember the Windows Media Center community being excited about a piece of hardware as it has about the Ceton quad CableCard tuner. The card was given an official release date of March 31st at CES. Unfortunately Ceton released a newsletter today with bad news in regards to the release date, but also with some good news.
Getting straight to the bad news, Ceton has pushed the release date to May 31st. No specific reasons were given for the delay.
There isn’t any single reason, …

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[25 Nov 2009 | Comments | 1,236 views]
Entertainment 2.0-Episode 54: Ceton Q&A

Not much in the way of show notes this week folks.  No extra links or special treats.  Episode 54 is all about Ceton and their forthcoming CableCard tuner.  Josh and I had the opportunity to get some of your questions answered by sitting down with Jeremy Hammer, VP of Systems Integration for Ceton.  It was great to have Jeremy on and we hope he’ll join us again when the tuner gets ready to make its appearance at retail!
We’ll be bringing back comments, emails and voicemail next week so keep …

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[10 Sep 2009 | Comments | 820 views]
Entertainment 2.0-Episode 45: CEDIA 2009 Part 1

No folks, we haven’t split this week’s episode.  We just figure there’s enough info to share that we’ll be spending Episode 46 talking about all of the CEDIA developments as well.  Not only that but as of this episode, we’ve only heard from Microsoft and none of the partners so hopefully, we’ll have even more next week!
For this episode we’re joined by Richard Green, a long time Media Center user, and Josh Shenkle, contributor to The DMZ and regular guest, to go through some of the things we’ve already …