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Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:19 PM

Microsoft Showcases Windows Media Center Momentum at CEDIA EXPO 2008

From distributed HD entertainment to automation and control, Windows Media Center is at the center of an ever-expanding ecosystem within the custom installation channel. DENVER — Sept. 4, 2008 — At CEDIA EXPO 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:00 AM

Niveus Media @ CEDIA: Movie Library, 8 CableCARD, 10 Extenders, Home Server

Niveus Movie Library Goes Primetime! Version 1.5 is enriched to offer high-res cover art (including Blu-ray) and support for a wider catalogue of movie sources, such as disc-in-drive… and more! Denver, CO – CEDIA Expo 2008 – September...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:05 PM

Microsoft Addresses CableCARD SDV Issue

Today Microsoft made public their intensions to support Switched Digital Video (SDV) within Windows Media Center. While details are limited, Charlie Nilsson, Program Manager for the NetOps TV Team at Microsoft posted on The Green Button about the issue...
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Monday, September 01, 2008 9:32 PM

Short Bits: Life|ware & Niveus at CEDIA

This edition ripped straight from CE Pro …It seems Niveus Media is done with pushing their recently developed Niveus EDGE Extender. The might have been Xbox 360-based Extender (sans gaming) is out and the HP MediaSmart Connect is in . Interesting...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:00 PM

Niveus Media Teams Up With ADI To Deliver Media Servers To Custom Electronics Installers

Award-winning Niveus Media Server – Vail Edition integrates technologies to provide a high-performance entertainment experience. Milpitas, CA – August 27, 2008 – Niveus Media is teaming up with ADI to distribute the newest Niveus Media...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:47 AM

CableCARD to Get Relaxed DRM

It has always been hard to stomach the DRM variations that CableLabs has set up between OCURs and UDCP devices like TiVo’s. TiVo gets the ability to have non-DRM recordings if the content provider hasn’t flagged the broadcast at all whereas...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:21 AM

More on Cannon PCs Six CableCARD PC

On Friday Cannon PC demoed a system recording from six CableCARDs all at once , while playing back a recording and the system didn’t skip a beat. This was demoed in the YouTube video , but I got some higher resolution screenshots of Media Center showing...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 7:30 AM

Cannon PC Demos Media Center with 6 CableCARDs

June 18, 2008 - Cannon PC, LP demonstrated a capability of their Media Centers to accommodate 6 Digital Cable Cards and simultaneously record 6 different HD Digital Cable Channels. Cannon PC, the award winning Media Center specialty company, demonstrated...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:29 AM

Could Dell Be Part of CableCARD Instability?

No doubt that CableCARD has turned out to be a less than stellar technology from a stability point of view, but could Dell be a big reason why CableCARD seems so unstable? As a part of Microsoft’s investigation into “Restricted Content” errors on CableCARD...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:11 AM

Microsoft and Cannon PC Partner to offer CableCARD Media Centers

Cannon PC, LP announced its Direct OEM partnership with Microsoft and will be offering a Digital CableCARD on its Home Series and Pro A/V Series Media Centers. May 25, 2008 – Cannon PC, the award winning Media Center specialty company, announced May 25th...
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Friday, May 23, 2008 4:16 PM

Short Bits: Restricted Content, Plug-ins, XP SP3

Niveus Media has released another exclusive plug-in for Niveus owners , this time they have got your basic weather needs covered. Niveus Weather looks very nice based on the screenshots and I assume it is MCML also. ( Via Missing Remote ). Mike is back...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:58 PM

More on SDV Tuning Adaptors and OCUR

Dave Zatz posted some of the first photos of the upcoming SDV Tuning Adaptor (TA) today and it brings up some interesting questions on whether or not they will work with OCURs on the PC. First, let’s take a step back to last year when I asked CableLabs...
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Monday, May 12, 2008 1:38 PM

Update: SDV Tuning Resolver Unlikely to Work with OCURs

I’ve covered the fact that CableLabs has said they are not focusing the upcoming Tuning Resolver (TR) on OCURs, and this has become more evident in the actual specifications for the TR. OCURs, which are PC-based Digital Cable Tuners (like ATIs) are not...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:21 PM

ATI Digital Cable Tuner Firmware Update Posted

ATI/AMD has posted version 1.17.1 firmware for Digital Cable Tuners (OCUR/CableCARD). The update is said to fix several issues including Multiple OCUR having the same IP address and “No TV Signal” errors when tuning twice on the same channel. You can...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:30 PM

Dell Drops Prices on CableCARD Tuners

A few weeks ago Dell ended their special pricing on Digital Cable Tuners , taking them from $180 for a single tuner to $255 for a single tuner. That didn’t last for too long though. Now Dell has lowered the price to $199 for a single tuner and $379 for...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:17 AM

HP Winning CableCARD Price Battle

With Dell’s ending of their Digital Cable Tuner sale , HP has taken the lead in the mainstream CableCARD desktop price battle. You can now pickup an HP m9200t that includes a single CableCARD tuner for as low as $1,099. Dell on the other hand will cost...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:18 PM

Dell Raises CableCARD Tuner Prices

It was sure fun while it lasted, but Dell’s special purchasing deal with ATI/AMD on the Digital Cable Tuners appears to have ended. When the XPS 420 first launched four months ago , Dell was pushing out the tuners for only $180/each. This was an amazing...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:17 PM

Reader Questions: Round 1

Have any questions for me? As a part of Media Center Week I’m trying to answer as many as I can. Post them here. Q: I've heard that Cox is refusing new HD channels for CableCARD users even though they are not going to SDV until the end of the year...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:07 PM

Short Bits: Advertising, MAINGEAR, Ultimate PC

Microsoft has started another round of Media Center/Extender online advertising on sites like The Green Button, AVS Forum, and more. It is nice to see Microsoft advertising more, but the point still stands that the people who need to know about these...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 3:08 PM

Two-Way CableCARD Appears in Windows 7

I’ve long talked about the addition of two-way CableCARD within Media Center , but so far no real timeline has been drawn. Microsoft has kept their lips locked as has CableLabs about actually finishing (or announcing) the specs for the two-way tuners...
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