Digital Cable HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed

Jack Kolesar of AMDPower writes "We have posted a review of a PC HDTV Tuner card that can receive QAM (Digital Cable) signals along with traditional 8VSB signals. This appears to be the first PC Card which can accomplish this task. Further, the software also comes with a utility to downsample HDTV content to DVD and DivX. "

Re:Warm up the keyboard

[softwave]

Boo, hiss. Who's up for some driver coding?
by any means, feel free :)

Wheee!

[general_re]

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What a great review - now where can I get my hands on this thing? :)

great

[Nuttles]

techies already don't get enough exercise, now I won't have to even swival my chair to look from my monitor to my TV. Isn't there a lobbying group for the the support of tech people not gaining any more weight? Where is my representation? Where is my protection from myself?

Nuttles
Saved by Grace

you bastards

[MachineShedFred]

I was really interested in reading this article, as I've been looking for something to do this, and with only 4 comments posted, this is what I get:

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Now that AMDPower's servers have melted into a pool of molten plastic and silicon on the datacenter floor, I hope you're happy!

It's all fun and games...

[xenostar]

It's all fun and games until you delete something important because you were watching the Olsen twins make out with each other in the always-on-top TV window in the corner of your screen.

Re:It's all fun and games...

[Mr Guy]

I'd be more worried about most people here needing to replace their keyboards after watching something like that.

Re:you bastards

[radixvir]

Maybe if they would have used Intel processors in their servers.

Zing!

Re:It's all fun and games...

[Wescotte]

Uh, if you were watching the Olsen twins making out with each other I doubt you'd have a hand free to accidently delete something

Re:Is CableCARD even an option yet?

[The Salamander]

TimeWarner in Austin is already issuing the cards.

You can receive all your channels, but no program guide, pay-per-view, or iControl.

Re:Not the holy grail...

[bofkentucky]

As I understand it, the 1st Gen Cablecard spec is pretty crippled, straight decrypt only. For Program Guides/PPV/other, we have to wait for CableCard v2

Re:Is CableCARD even an option yet?

[swb]

What devices can current accept cable card?

Re:Is CableCARD even an option yet?

[jared_hanson]

I don't have a complete list by any means, but many of the latest HDTVs have CableCARD slots. For instance, the Pioneer PureVision plasma displays do. You can walk into any Best Buy and check them out. Got to the HDTV section and many of the TVs being sold will list CableCARD as a feature.

As of yet, I know of no stand alone set-top box that has CableCARD compatibility. Rumors have it that TiVo once demoed a prototype that did, but if so, it has yet to see retail availablity.

Re:great

[CreatureComfort]

Yes, but the lobbying group is sponsored by McDonalds and Mt. Dew.

Re:It's all fun and games...

[dmayle]

Olsen twins make out with each other

Yeah, but one of them would be the fat one... ;)

Re:Who needs the cablecard?

[_anomaly_]

Anyone care to comment?

If I knew what the hell you were talking about...
:-)