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 the six streams at once. Given the system resources...
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 to a select group of people the capability of...
Ian Dixon had a ton of good stuff this past week at HP’s Connecting your World event in Germany . Among the top announcements was HPs new TouchSmart PC which features a 22-inch display . Best of all, this thing is cheap! It smarts at only $1,300, nearly half of their pervious TouchSmart PCs (and much...
Microsoft made plans public on Friday in Japan (late Thursday in US) for the release of a product called “Windows Media Center TV Pack” as a part of their increased TV signal support in the country. (Image via Masaru Kamikura's tumblr ) What is the Windows Media Center TV Pack? Well, that’s up to...
Brent Evans has (almost) all your answers on the HD PVR that finally has started shipping . And remember, it doesn’t work with Media Center (yet?). Joe Wilcox has Eight Things About Windows 7 following Microsoft’s first public demo of the OS at All Things D. Overall I think Windows 7 is going to be more...
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 PCs we have learned a lot, specifically about...
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 its partnership with Microsoft and will be offering...
Niveus Media released an updated build of their Movie Library plug-in . You still need a Niveus PC, but major changes include support for MyMovies XML & Artwork files/folder structure and support for DVD Profiler XML structure. Missing Remote has the scoop on PCAlchemy’s new PC line; Avideus. “The...
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 dual tuners. This move puts an entry level XPS 420...
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 you $1,304 for the lowest spec’ed XPS 420 with a...