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Amazon has the Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner PCI-Express x1 Card for $199 with free shipping. Watch and record four live channels of SD or HD TV simultaneously on your PC.
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Lowest price I've seen for a great product. Just installed it w/o problem or hassles. With Windows 7, it works just like my Motorola DVR from RCN.
What are the exact cost savings here? If you have Comcast cable or Verizon FiOS you do not have to pay to rent their cable boxes or DVR Units? You still have to rent their card that goes into this Centon Unit. How much does that cost a month? Does 4 Quad Tuner mean you can connect up to 4 extenders to it that will all be able to watch something different at any one time? (Assuming you have 4 TVs) So you would have to purchase 4 xbox 360s and then 4 remotes that go with them. Your house would have to have Ethernet or Wireless connecting to the Media Center PC with the Centon card in it to all your 360s that would then connect to your TVs. $199 for the Centon Card. $100 bucks per 360. $10 bucks per 360 remote. $200 bucks for Media Center PC. Cost to rent cable card per month from your Provider. Am I on the wrong track?
Pukey - this device puts 4 tuners available on a PC (and possibly a network). They can be mixed and matched any way you want (2 channels being recorded while an X-box shows a channel live and a different channel is being watched live on a PC. Not many homes need to show 4 different shows live at the same time, but I know I frequently want to schedule recordings that might overlap 2-3 at a time. This allows those three shows to be recorded while still allowing you to flip channels looking for something else.
I got it mostly because the Motorola DVR can only record up to 20 hours HD and it was not possible to archive the recordings.
BTW, RCN charges $17/ HD-DVR vs $2/cablecard per month.
How is the video quality while viewing standard digital channels with this Ceton? My Hauppauge works very poorly with the SD but good with the HD.
I am going to give this a try. Still have to get the PC, OS, 360. I just bought a 360 media center remote control from buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/bacon-universal-media-remote-microsoft-b4o-00001-remote-control/201975285.html
This was on bensbargains but it says expired... but it is not. $14.99 shipped 25% off.
Now I just need a Xbox 360 slim for $100 bucks.
How do you change channels when the tv and extender are in a different part of the house?
My setup would be: Media Center PC + Ceton Card + Verizon or Comcast Cable Card in basement. Then I would either use wireless or Cat 6 with Gigabit Switch to connect a 360 on the first floor which is connected to a TV in the same room on the first floor to the Media Center PC in the basement over the network. I would then use a 360 media center remote control to change channels on TV through 360. The goal would be to get rid of the set top boxes that I pay 10 - 20 dollar a month rental fee. Additionally the media center PC would provide a multiroom DVR. Possibly I may beable to connect remotely to media center PC and watch tv when I am not at home and or set recording when I am not at home.
Deal is still good. Just purchased one. Thank Ben!