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...

HTPCentric 03: MythTV

May 4, 2010 by Adam Thursby

Jere Jones and I are back this month and it’s all about MythTV! When you don’t know very much about a topic you go out and you find some folks who have the knowledge you seek and that’s exactly what we did this month. Jere and I are joined by Patrick Archibald and “Guru”, two MythTV...

HTPC Research Help

Oct 26, 2009 by Adam Thursby

Most people who read here or are involved with the HTPC community in any way know most of the options out there. For those looking to get started you may have heard of Windows Media Center and maybe SageTV, two of the bigger players in the market. What you may not know is that there are a ton...