Apparently as of today you can no longer purchase a brand new Dell PC with CableCARD blesupport. A look at their listing of available XPS machines no longer shows the XPS 420, nor any other PC that currently supports CableCARD. This could be interpreted a few different ways. Maybe they are preparing to launch a new model with CableCARD support and it just hasn’t shown up on the site yet. Personally, I’m afraid they are getting out of the CableCARD business altogether.

I started to think that Dell was preparing to exit when they didn’t bother to put digital cable support on any of the new XPS 430 models, or even the XPS 420 models with 64 Bit operating systems. Now this just puts even that much more doubt in my mind that they are done with the technology.

It appears as though the only ways to get an XPS 420 with digital cable support now is to try and find one on Ebay (or other similar sites) or on the Dell Outlet. This seems to be getting more difficult as well with all of the 64 Bit systems with no digital cable support slowly creeping their way into the Outlet inventory but if you want to take a stab at it, be sure to review my post on how to find one by going through the Outlet.