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 [Blogs.snapstream.com] SnapStream Blog » Blog Archive » Beyond TV 4 Announced!: If an internal or external digital tuner was available which took a cable card so that all HDTV programming was available from my cable provider, I would be quite happy to replace my cable box with that tuner + cable card. If the OS limitation for firewire/1394 is onerous, we may have to wait for these digital tuners to become available (only OTA cards are listed as being supported by BTV4 ‘out of the box’).

[Byopvr.com] Build Your Own PVR :: Why Tivo When you can Freevo?: HTPCnews has posted a favorable review of the VBox DTA-151 ATSC HDTV Tuner. From my reading of the article, there is no hardware encoding (rampy note: with DTV broadcast there's no need for a hardware encoder just stream the digital bits right to the hard disk) , so it's all software via Windows Media Center Edition 2005 for PVR functionality.

[Pvrblog.com] Microsoft Media Center 2005 reviewed | PVRblog: It only does over-the-air HDTV, but that's not entirely MS' fault. The cable and satellite folks have their own proprietary encryption schemes they're not into sharing with anyone.

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