Microsoft Inks Cable Deal for HDTV Support
Posted by malebolgia on 17 November 2005 - 00:00 · 11 comments & 1502 views
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#1 Posted by Express on 17 Nov 2005 - 00:09
- Woohoo! This is the best news of the day.
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#2 Posted by jackyblacky714 on 17 Nov 2005 - 01:51
- MCE rocks!
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#3 Posted by Co_Co on 17 Nov 2005 - 03:41
- sounds great
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#4 Posted by Airlink on 17 Nov 2005 - 04:36
- Um, if you've got a ATI All-IN-Wonder card with a Rage Theatre chip on the video card, you can already pipe HDTV into your PC. This isjust Microsoft saying "Me Too!" and building suport for HDTV into XP MCE. Whoop-de-doo.
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#4.1 Posted by EnzoFX on 17 Nov 2005 - 04:47
- like the article said, xp MCE has had HDTV support since last fall.....
tho it might have been only OTA.
this is saying that set top boxes won't be needed to view cable tv or cable hdtv.....
which is a big deal to the MCE community
u wont have to deal with IR blasters n such....... rite?
great news
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#4.2 Posted by sphbecker on 17 Nov 2005 - 17:01
- They are two completely different things. You are talking about over-air HDTV via an HD toner. This is a computer directly interfacing with the cable companies digital HD service.
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#4.3 Posted by dolimite35 on 18 Nov 2005 - 07:37
QUOTE Um, if you've got a ATI All-IN-Wonder card with a Rage Theatre chip on the video card, you can already pipe HDTV into your PC
There are no All-In-Wonder cards that do HDTV. The only HDTV tuner ATI has is the HDTV Wonder and it doesnt do Cable HD only over the air HDTV. But i think they are working on HDTV for All-in-Wonder cards next year or maybe they new X1000 series of cards.
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#5 Posted by LoR*Evanescence on 17 Nov 2005 - 14:20
- Any chance we could be seeing this with other tv tuner hardware releases in the future too?
I have a notebook that's does not have Windows Media Center hardware on it. So I would love to see an external firewire or usb II tv tuner that can display digital cable or hd with out the set top box.
In addition, x64 drivers would be nice
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#6 Posted by sphbecker on 17 Nov 2005 - 15:10
- Wow, that is awesome; I have been wondering how long that would take. Now they just need to do the same thing with the DishNetwork and DirectTV.
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#7 Posted by madrascafe on 17 Nov 2005 - 18:16
- Well if you want Cable based HDTV you need either a tuner that has a CableCard OR QAM support...
Check this place out.. this has a PCMCIA based TV Tuner for analog TV & have plenty of PCI based cards for OTA HDTV Cards
http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/index.htm
If you want a QAM based PCI card check this one out...
http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?products_id=103
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=DigiREC-HDLite&category=Home_theater&detail=yes&exact_match=yes
In fact the PCMCIA version is $30 @ buy.com -
#7.1 Posted by dolimite35 on 18 Nov 2005 - 07:31
QUOTE FusionHDTV QAM decoding is limited to only the non-encrypted channels available
i think its the same for the other tuner (AirStar-HD5000) as well so no HD-HBO for you
The pact, with the industry's technical arm, CableLabs, means that PCs with Microsoft's Media Center features will be able to display digital cable--both standard and high-definition flavors--without a set-top box. Microsoft has offered support for over-the-air HDTV since last fall, but the cable deal has taken some time. "We have been working in earnest over the course of the past year with the cable industry to enable this scenario," said Ron Pessner, a senior director in Windows Client unit. "There are a number of pieces that needed to come together."
To all you Xbox holders...will you be rushing to the stores to get your copy of HL:2?
-Enan Hawk