Back at CES, one of the biggest news items was the announcement of the Ceton 4 CableCard Tuner Card for Media Center. Since then news has been a bit scarce, and now the announcement has been made that the card is available for pre-order and will be shipping May 31st.
The Ceton InfiniTV 4 is the world’s first multi-tuner PC card for watching digital cable TV on the PC, including support for premium and encrypted cable channels like HBO and Showtime. 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 using a single CableCARD from your local cable operator.
NOTE: this is a special pre-order program for Ceton InfiniTV 4. A valid credit card is required at the time of order but will not be charged until your order is shipped. InfiniTV 4 is expected to ship on May 31, 2010.
- The first multi-tuner PC card for watching digital cable TV on the PC
- Support for premium and encrypted cable channels like HBO and Showtime
- Enables Media Center PCs to play or record up to four live channels of HDTV at once
- Stream live HD channels or recordings to multiple HDTVs throughout the home
- System Requirements: InfiniTV 4 is a PCIe low-profile PC card and ships with both low-profile and full-height backplates. The recommended minimum system requirements are: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate; 2GHz or faster CPU minimum, either 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) – 2.7GHz or faster dual-core CPU is recommended; 2GB of RAM minimum – 3GB or more is recommended; 1 PCIe slot, which can be either an x1, x4, x8, or x16 type slot; 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
Click here to place your order now: http://www.zones.com/site/product/index.html?id=003201915
The card will retails for $399, something tells me that Tim will be placing his order today 🙂
For more information on the Ceton InfinitiTV 4 card, click here: http://www.cetoncorp.com/products.php
Already on it,cant wait. what a bummer on the 30 day delay
Let us know when you get it and what you think 🙂
Andrew
Ordered mine also. Fingers crossed!
what do you think about using Microsoft vitual machine software and putting 2 or 3 cards in a machine?
Tim i know you have room
also no fan on the cards final release how cool, looks like we can put a bigger heatsink on the side. HEHE
WW, I'm don't think that will work with MSVPC. I'm almost positive that it, like VMPlayer, will not pass the PCIe buss to the VMs'. The only way I've been able to get a TV tuner to a VM is use USB tuners.
Also remember that Media Center is limited to four (OEM is up too six) TV channels that it can control at one time.
fasthair
Nice to know this tuner is coming down in prices. I’m considering adding this to my HTPC.