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[Ed Bott’s Media Central] More on MCE and HDTV: Cable companies have an umbrella organization (CableLabs) and a technology (Open Cable Application Platform) that third parties can implement to get their technologies into the encrypted data stream. Getting certified by CableLabs means you’ve successfully met their requirements for maintaining a secure data path that can’t be copied.
[ThePodcastNetwork :: The Media Center Show] The Media Center Show #7 - Thomas Hawk: 11:14 How Thomas uses his Media Center PC 11:30 HDTV 12:28 Limitations of TIVO 14;24What is HDTV 16:28 Downloading content 17:40 Channel 9 on Media Center 18:40 Using RSS on MCE... and message on next weeks show 01:50 Feature your MCE add on’s 2:22 Break 3:23 Welcome to Thomas 04
[The F-Stop Blues] Site Feed of the Day: Thomas Hawk: cable HDTV capable DVR from TiVo by early next year. And I think that the trend for more... HDTVMCE support. I guess I keep hoping that these things are right around the corner and suspect... TiVo and my MCE box I’ve got an Onkyo HTS 760 home theater sound system and a 500 gig LaCie drive
[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: What's really interesting is that while Verizon is laying down fiber to many major cities and competing with Cable and DSL companies for internet service (Verizon offers 5, 15, and even 30Mbps connections), fiber has plenty of bandwidth left over for sending data like HDTV. While this review is brief and light on details, it looks like Verizon is using a similar Motorola DVR box as Comcast does for HD.
[Edbott.com] Ed Bott's Windows Expertise » TiVo versus MCE versus my cable company: I have an 80-Hour Series 2 Tivo on a wireless network with a broadband connection, 3 regular TVs, and an HDTV. I plan to buy another Tivo to handle conflicts and storage issues, and maybe a laptop, but am holding out for a Tivo that records HD from cable (and built-in dvd recording would be nice, although they now have Tivo-to-go).
[Blogs.msdn.com] Dan Crevier's Blog : I'm giving up Tivo (kinda): It reminds me a bit of switching from the Mac to Windows. At first there are a bunch of things that are just different and take some getting used to.
[Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: The MediaReady 5000 is a prettied-up Linux box that supports audio and video shares through Windows and OS X and includes a DVR, scheduler, photo viewer, and even a web browser (Firefox) and email client (Thunderbird). They’ve done a good job of making it nice and user friendly and it even includes a keyboard with scroll wheel a la WebTV.
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[atmaspheric | endeavors] Cablecard delivers a superior picture (no cable box compression) and the 2.0 version will give you two-way control so you won’t need a box for VOD or enhanced services if your provider supports this function. It’s also good news for third party DVR makers like TIVO and will hopefully be the path to HDTV on HTPC’s like MCE.