Ordered a Centon Infinitv. For those who don't know, its a PCIe card for your computer that allows you to record up to 4 digital (HD) cable channels. So now I can set up to 4 shows to DVR at once. Only needed to run the setup and restart the computer. Windows Media Center picked it up right away as 4 tuners. The longest part was waiting for all the channels to be found.
One feature that is really cool is being able to use the extra tuners on other PC's on the network. Ceton refers to this as 'network tuners'. Requires you to install software on both computers and to have a fairly fast network. I tried it over 54mb wireless. The software warns against this but I tried anyways. It worked, but saturated my wireless. Using a full 100mbit or gigabit would probably work just fine.
The only problem with digital cable is you need a M-Card from the cable company. This requires a service tech to come out to install/activate one. As far as I can tell, they are required to come out because you aren't guaranteeing a card will work the first time. I still need to schedule that, since summer seems to be the busiest time, its hard to get one to come out
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