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more about #cablecard more comments → fuchikoma: I've never needed a Tivo - who would pay to use a VCR? While PCs have long been able to act as DVRs, for a scheduled event, if you're already doing s... more » blash: Adapt or die. TiVo had a good product and then decided to do nothing while the cash rolled in and the good times rolled away. The industry is moving ... more » Ava: I love my Tivo, but the pervasive advertising is a real problem. Seriously, ads every time I pause a program? I can understand being subjected to adv... more » jtolj: I think Tivo's business model has been flawed for quite a while. They should have slashed subscription prices and hardware prices to get their boxes i... more » ian.nai: Hit it right on the nose! I once (and only once) checked out Tivo. Upon finding out that they want a monthly commitment I closed the browser window ... more » Slinkytech: I like Tivo, it has great features. Like when you are fast forwarding and press play, it actually has some algorithm to play it where you saw it, eve... more » ducttape38: I have a TiVo HD XL because I only use OTA HD. TiVo's suggestions help me make the most out of the limited number of channels I get, and the $15 per m... more » Animal_Chin: I just wish TiVo would work out their differences with the cable / satellite providers. I would happily pay $15 a month for TiVo functionality on my ... more » FThorn: I would love TIVO if it was free and worked with my OTA broadcasts. I have never had cable TV, so it's a bit overpriced for me. more » Maori_Yelir: AT&T's TV service is incredible. My girlfriend has it and the DVR is really easy to use, doesn't hang like Comcast's stupid device does and can be wat... more » baumsquad: Love my tivo. And I think in the past years as their subscription rates went up, it made it that much easier for those who knew the TivoHD was going ... more » Ken Gilb: I have a Tivo series 3 and an HTPC running Media Portal for my movies/blu ray. The HTPC can in now way replicate the Tivo experience. We finally got... more » SJRNWT: Am I the only one that's given up any kind of paid TV service in exchange for internet TV? I just hook my laptop up to my TV-- it's free and the qual... more » spudhed: well it never took off over here, mainly because it was almost the price of a monthly sky sub just to record (about £20 a month if i remember) it was... more » dragon:ONE: Jason, what if you're in a family that absolutely refuses to get more than one box, and also refuses to get DVR service? I've always considered picki... more » -
#rant
You Don't Need a TiVo Anymore
This chart of TiVo's slipping subscriber numbers may be surprising, seeing as TiVo is the television recording device (and it's so good), but it's something we've seen coming for a while. We love you TiVo, but you're fast becoming obsolete. More » -
#ceton
Ceton's CableCARD Solution Has Six Tuners In One Slot
This Ceton Multi-Channel CableCARD is very interesting, both for its ability to decode six cable streams at once to record six shows at once on your Windows Media Center, and for the fact that it's not all that expensive. More » -
#windows7
Normal People Can Now Install CableCARD Tuners On Windows 7 PCs
FINALLY. Microsoft and CableLabs are finally opened the door to have regular people add in CableCARD tuners by themselves, after they've purchased the PC and set it up. This is good news. More » -
#cablecard
System Builders Bypass CableCARD Certification With BIOS Tweaking
Tweakers have finally bypassed the one thing in the way of getting CableCARD tuners working on any old PC by fiddling with the BIOS and entering in certain product IDs. It's a good start. More » -
#review
Moxi HD Review: Beats Cable, But It Ain't TiVo
When I hooked Digeo's Moxi HD DVR up, I told my wife it's like TiVo, and she said, "Then why don't we just use TiVo?" After several weeks testing it, I have no good answer. More » -
#dvrs
Moxi Steps To TiVo, Adding Rhapsody Music and PlayOn for Netflix, Hulu and More
Digeo today brings its Moxi HD DVR in range of TiVo with some capabilities it was sorely lacking in a big way, including DLNA 1.0 for home streaming, and PlayOn for grabbing major net video. More » -
#cedia2008
Lifeware's LMS-810 Media Center PC Can Drive Ten TVs at Once
See these 10 TVs? They're all being driven by the same, single Media Center PC. Taking what they came with last year and doubling it, Lifeware has crammed eight CableCARD tuners (two on board and six more in the external Lifetuner box on top) into a dual Intel Quad Core, 12TB RAID 5 box that can stream out to ten Media Extenders (here, Xbox 360s driving Samsung LCDs). The box can record from all eight of its HD streams while streaming to all 10 Extenders at once, so if you've been wondering what to do with your home's 8 spare digital cable feeds, now you know. No price yet for a pre-Christmas release, but last year's model with half as many CableCARDs was $15k. More » -
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#sdvontivo
TiVo Switched Video Tuning Adapters Appear at CableLabs
At long last, the SDV dongles that TiVo promised would arrive this year from Motorola and Cisco have been submitted to CableLabs for formal testing. For those unfamiliar, these little devices allow for two way communication between CableCard boxes and Cable Companies, so that only the needed programming data is sent, and bandwidth is conserved. Dave Zatz says its a good start to fixing the whole CableCard HD Programming debacle, even if its widely unsupported and a bit clunky. A shot of the Cisco box below. [Zatz Not Funny] More » -
#cable
CableCard Users Are Getting Screwed Out of HD Channels
Our friend Gary Merson, the HD Guru, has uncovered an issue that may soon piss you off. Cable customers who use the current CableCard to decode signal directly in their TV, a TiVo or Windows Media Center PC may soon start losing HD channels because of a change in technology. To conserve bandwidth, cable carriers are moving from a direct stream of video to "switched digital video," which use two-way digital cable boxes to see what customers need then send it to them. CableCards are only one-way, so they can't make use of any SDV coming down the pipes. What does this mean? Merson says that as of April 15, Cablevision has cut off CableCard access to 15 Voom HD channels, and Time Warner will apparently make similar cuts. More » -
#laptops
Sony Updates VAIO AR Laptops with Blu-ray and CableCARD
Sony's AR series of VAIO notebooks with their Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500 processors are already in our catbird seat but now the company's goosed its 17-inch versions, giving them the ability to do a lot more both on the road and in the home theater. How does a Blu-ray drive on board sound to you? How about CableCARD? More »
