Place a Ceton card into your Windows 7 Ultimate PC with Windows Media Center and simultaneously record 4 TV streams at once to media of your choice (local drive, NAS, shares on your network). Once recorded to a shared drive on your network, you can view the content on any PC in the house. Or, you can assign one of the turners to any PC, allowing that PC to record/view live content. Why do this?
-You own the DVR (your HTPC) without paying rental fees. Most low end PCs with a 30$ GPU will do fine.
-You determine the recorded TV storage capacity without paying your cable company
-Cable companies usually charge $5/month for the cable card rental (a credit card size card that slips into the Ceton Card). Cheap.
-Once you have the card installed, you can push the live feed to any PC in your house, as well any recorded content is multiroom viewing.
-Windows Media Center is wife approved, and I went from Tivo.
Example- I was paying $80/month to a satellite company for 3 non-HDTV DVRs, limited recording space (40 hours per). I switched cable companies, now pay $35/month and have 4 HTPC HDTV DVRs (plus view recorded content from my in-home mobile devices).
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Place a Ceton card into your Windows 7 Ultimate PC with Windows Media Center and simultaneously record 4 TV streams at once to media of your choice (local drive, NAS, shares on your network). Once recorded to a shared drive on your network, you can view the content on any PC in the house. Or, you can assign one of the turners to any PC, allowing that PC to record/view live content. Why do this? -You own the DVR (your HTPC) without paying rental fees. Most low end PCs with a 30$ GPU will do fine. -You determine the recorded TV storage capacity without paying your cable company -Cable companies usually charge $5/month for the cable card rental (a credit card size card that slips into the Ceton Card). Cheap. -Once you have the card installed, you can push the live feed to any PC in your house, as well any recorded content is multiroom viewing. -Windows Media Center is wife approved, and I went from Tivo. Example- I was paying $80/month to a satellite company for 3 non-HDTV DVRs, limited recording space (40 hours per). I switched cable companies, now pay $35/month and have 4 HTPC HDTV DVRs (plus view recorded content from my in-home mobile devices).