In my inbox this morning I found a press release from S1Digital announcing they will be shipping Digital Cable Tuners this May. More and more companies are offering these new tuners that allow you to view high definition cable through a media center pc. Hopefully all of this competition will drive the price down for these high-end systems. S1Digital is offering CableCard Tuners as part of their Media Center Platinum edition, which will sell for over $3,000.
From the press release:
Digital Cable Tuners are the “must have” technology of 2007 and will allow you to watch and record digital cable programming, including premium HDTV channels, directly from your S1Digital Media Center without the need for a set top box. Up to two Digital Cable Tuners can be installed on each Media Center.
When coupled with Media Center Extenders (such as the Xbox 360) you’ll be able to stream live TV, including HDTV, to other rooms around your home via a standard home network, providing an extremely easy to install and use multi-room video distribution solution.
Adding Digital Cable Tuners rounds out our already full featured solutions that include HD-DVD and Blu-ray playback, 1080p HDMI video output, 7.1 channel surround sound, multi-terabyte storage and Intel Viiv Technology. And as you already know, our Media Centers are powered by Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad processors and run Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate.
Thu, Apr 26, 2007
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