The Media Center Blog

Looking for Media Center news from CES? Look no further. Here’s all you need to know about the big Media Center related news at CES.
“Ceton Corporation today announced details of the upcoming launch of the Ceton Digital Cable Quad-Tuner card, the world’s first four-tuner digital cable solution for Windows 7 PCs with Windows Media Center. [...]

File this one in the surprising news category. It appears as though Silicondust is in the process of making a CableCARD tuner for Windows 7! With all of the news regarding the failure of CableCARD, the last thing I was expecting was a CableCARD HDHomeRun but it’s awesome news! In a postasking about the possibility [...]

Finally! According to Chris Lanier, the next version of ATI OCUR firmware that we’ve been waiting so long for will not only include less restrictive DRM, but also support for the tuning adaptor that will allow OCUR (CableCARD) tuners to work with Switched Digital Video.
Fortunately for me, my cable company has not yet implemented SDV [...]

It looks like S1Digital has figured out something that many enthusiasts in the Media Center community have been clamoring for through the years…the ever elusive Softsled. Softsled was a codename for a project Microsoft was rumored to be working on a while back. It would provide a way to turn one of the other PCs [...]