Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
For a while it looked like you had to get a complete solution or no CableCard for you.
Without requiring the BIOS hack?Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
For a while it looked like you had to get a complete solution or no CableCard for you.
When cable cards first came out? The ATI solutions have been available to the public for over a year now.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Sweet. Now we just need one of these:
http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/SDV/
Without requiring the BIOS hack?Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
For a while it looked like you had to get a complete solution or no CableCard for you.
When cable cards first came out? The ATI solutions have been available to the public for over a year now.
Seems strange that that would be possible since CableLabs just agreed to lift the restriction, afaik. I've seen that people have been able to purchase the ATi tuners for a while now but you still may or may not have to do the BIOS hack, depending on what m/b you use.Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Sweet. Now we just need one of these:
http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/SDV/
Without requiring the BIOS hack?Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
For a while it looked like you had to get a complete solution or no CableCard for you.
When cable cards first came out? The ATI solutions have been available to the public for over a year now.
Yes
Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Mike
This is good as it will bring down the price, but pci and external cable card adapters have been available for a long time now.
For a while it looked like you had to get a complete solution or no CableCard for you.
When cable cards first came out? The ATI solutions have been available to the public for over a year now.
The cable cards were never restricted. The use of a cable card tuner was, however. You could not just match up an ATi tuner to any system. Previously only turnkey systems could be purchased from authorized resellers and the systems had a special BIOS entry that was required to allow a cable card tuner to be used on that system only. The system resellers also had to pay a rather hefty fee to CableLabs to permit them to build the systems in the first place.Originally posted by: Mike
Cable providers never restricted the use of cable cards. Just like in the past, you can rent a cable card from your cable provider per month per card.
Um, no. Not sure where you're getting your info from, but it's wrong - CableCard tuners have been very tightly controlled until now.Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Without requiring the BIOS hack?
Yes
Originally posted by: erwos
Um, no. Not sure where you're getting your info from, but it's wrong - CableCard tuners have been very tightly controlled until now.Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Without requiring the BIOS hack?
Yes
I am SO thinking an Ion HTPC box now. Maybe when they've got proper 7.1 sound output.
Is it _really available_ if you can buy it but can't actually use it? Seriously, man, you know what we're talking about, or should.Originally posted by: Mike
They've been available for well over a year now without the bios hack. This is to the public, by themselves.
Originally posted by: erwos
Um, no. Not sure where you're getting your info from, but it's wrong - CableCard tuners have been very tightly controlled until now.Originally posted by: Mike
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Without requiring the BIOS hack?
Yes
I am SO thinking an Ion HTPC box now. Maybe when they've got proper 7.1 sound output.