One of the more exciting pieces of tech showcased at this evening’s CES Keynote is the world’s first quad-tuner card for Windows Media Center, from Ceton. Who needs a tuner farm when one card can record four high definition programmes at the same time?
The Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner Card is the world’s first multi-tuner PC card for watching digital cable TV on the PC, including support for premium cable channels. It enables Media Center PCs to play or record up to four live channels of HDTV at once, and stream live HD channels or recordings to multiple HDTVs throughout the home, all from a single cable connection and a single CableCARD™. Replace your cable set-top boxes and their costly monthly rental fees and enjoy premium cable TV throughout the home, all from a single PC. With the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner Card your Media Center PC becomes a complete entertainment platform for all your media, including premium cable TV.
Four Live HD Channels At Once
Watch and/or record four live channels of standard-definition or high-definition TV simultaneously, including all your favorite premium and encrypted cable channels.
Whole-Home Entertainment
With Media Center Extenders like the Xbox 360™, your Media Center PC with the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner card becomes a whole-home entertainment device for digital cable. Watch and record different channels in different rooms, all from one PC, and using the familiar Windows Media Center user interface on all TVs.
Easy To Set Up
Just insert the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner card in your PC and follow the installation instructions and in just a few minutes you’ll be enjoying the best digital cable TV experience available on any device.
Works with any U.S. cable provider
The Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner will connect to any U.S. cable system to receive all SD and HD digital cable channels without needing a separate set-top box.
Minimum hardware specs as follows:
The recommended minimum system requirements for the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner are:
- Microsoft Windows® 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate
- 2.7 Gigahertz or faster Dual Core Processor – either 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64)
- 4 Gigabytes of RAM
- HDCP compliant on-board graphics or graphics card
- HDMI out, or DVI out with separate audio out
- Multi-Stream CableCARD™ (M-Card) – available from your local cable provider
- Digital cable subscription from a U.S. cable provider
Tech specs:
The Ceton Multi-Channel Cable TV Card includes the following technical capabilities:
- Four, dual ATSC/QAM 64/256 tuners
- CableCARD M-Card DRM Processor
- Open Cable Unidirectional Receiver Specification – OC-SP-OCUR-I08-081114
- Digital Receiver Interface Specification – OC-SP-DRI-I03-090206
- CableCARD Copy Protection 2.0 Specification – OC-SP-CCCP2.0-I10-090904
- CableCARD Interface 2.0 Specification – OC-SP-CCIF2.0-I20-091211
- Digital Cable Network Interface Standard – ANSI/SCTE 40 2004
Worth moving to the US for? Not quite, but almost! The Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner Card will ship by the end of March, with a retail price of $399.
More Info: Ceton
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