Back again and now that CEDIA is finally over we can talk about some of the other news that came out of the expo.  We can’t really call this part 2 of the CEDIA series since we’re saving that title for a special show.  A lot of what we discuss continues to focus on CableCard but again, there was some other good news last week and you’ll find the links below.
Once again, our listeners haven’t disappointed us with responding.  We had a lot of great comments and email that …

EngadgetHD’s BenDrawbaugh brought back some very interesting news from Dish Network’s booth at Cedia 2009. As we talked about in Episode 42 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast that there were extremely strong rumors that Dish Network had completely axed their Windows Media Center tuner project. In fact, Adam still cries a little every time we mention Dish Network.
Despite the rumors Dish does in fact have a booth at CEDIA this year, and they are showing their Media Center tuners! Unfortunately they are calling it a “proof of concept” at this point. …

Back again folks!  Thanks for joining us on this week of not such good news for Media Center enthusiasts.  But, like any good enthusiasts, we take our lumps and keep moving!
There is some good news this week amid all the turmoil however.  The best (for me) being that it’s now possible to convert non-MCE supported video containers to DVR-MS.  Not only can you flip MKV and AVI formats to something native to Media Center, but the conversions are high quality and the software is free!  Anyone who’s paid for …