HTPCentric 07: CableCard Breaks Out of Media Center

Sep 6, 2010 by Adam Thursby

While the news broke not too long ago right here on The DMZ, we’re back this month to discuss CableCard moving beyond the Media Center scope and into the wild. So far, this is all taking place within the MythTV realm and as such we’ve brought together two folks who will be affected by the...

CableLabs Approves Tuner Sharing and DRM Free Copy Freely Content

Aug 15, 2010 by Adam Thursby

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...

Ceton Lobbies the FCC to Not Abandon CableCARD

Apr 11, 2010 by Josh Pollard

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...

Ceton Delays Quad CableCard Tuner

Mar 12, 2010 by Josh Pollard

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...

Entertainment 2.0-Episode 54: Ceton Q&A

Nov 25, 2009 by Adam Thursby

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...

Entertainment 2.0-Episode 45: CEDIA 2009 Part 1

Sep 10, 2009 by Adam Thursby

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...