Ceton InfiniTV 4 Digital Cable Quad-tuner Card PCIe

Ceton InfiniTV 4 Digital Cable Quad-tuner Card PCIe

Regular Price: $261.36 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Eliminates costly set-top box lease fees and monthly DVR fees Brings cable TV services to the PC, enabling cable + DVR + Internet TV and more, all on one device Connects to Windows 7 PCs through PCIe slot Connects with any U.S. cable TV provider Watch & record 4 HD cable TV channels simultaneously, including premium channels Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

It just works!! - Finally
I've had this tuner about 3 months now (wasn't on Amazon at that time), and I can say, it just works - and it works well - It's really what Cablecards should have done 7 years ago. Had some minor concerns about the Comcast cablecard installer, but the Ceton Diag tools even made the installation fairly painless. Running Win7 on an i3, homebuilt HTPC, and things are FINALLY the way MCE should have been years ago - the card doesn't seem particularly problematic with incoming signals (I have mine sitting on a 7 way splitter but that includes an internal AMP) and my signal and SNR both look good - Card is quick to tuner to other stations, and it even goes to sleep and resumes correctly (YEA!) - There is a slight 30 sec pause on system resume while it seems to "sort of CC encryption stuff", but MCE displays the "spinning wheel" for a few seconds, and then your getting all the HD you want. I have this internal turner next to an analog PCI turner (Hauppage) as well as an HDHomeRun on the...
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April 14, 2011 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA) | Helpful Votes: 33 | Rating: 5

The perfect alternative to a cable box
I couldn't rate customer support because quite frankly I've never needed any customer support with this, and I've had it about 8 months. But everything else is definitely 5 stars. If you are in the market for a CableCARD tuner, this should be one of the products you consider. It might be expensive, but it's worth every penny....plus you get your money back anyway since you avoid renting a cable box or paying DVR fees. The monthly savings add up, and before you know it, this card is actually free.Cost aside, I really enjoy not having to use the cable box the cable company has. With the InfiniTV4, I can record 4 HD cable channels at once...something my old cable box couldn't do. I can also add as much storage space as I want, so I don't have to worry about running out of space. And believe me, with 4 tuners, I am recording much more than I used to. I hardly ever watch live TV anymore. I just record everything and watch it when I want to.
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April 15, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

Product Description

The award-winning InfiniTV 4 PCIe is the world's best-selling digital cable tuner for the PC. 4-Tuner, Internal, USB Digital Cable Tuner - replace your cable set-top box and use Windows 7's built-in Media Center functionality to watch and record four live cable TV channels simultaneously, including HD and premium channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz. When used with Media Center Extenders like the Xbox 360, you can stream cable live or recorded channels throughout the home over the home network, using only a single cable connection and single CableCARD from your cable operator. Requires Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, or Windows 7 Ultimate and an available PCIe slot in your PC. Top to learn more

DVR v2.0: Best DVR Option Available Today
I was an early adopter of HTPC technology. Windows Media Center and I go all the way back to the original version in Windows XP. Since then, Windows Media Center has matured nicely in Windows 7 and is finally ready for Prime Time. Even if you're not a techy, I strongly suggest looking at this technology, especially if you're fed up with the substandard DVRs the CableCo's charge too much buck for too little bang.DVR v1.0 used an ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner. Since there are multiple people in my house, and the ATI tuner can handle only one channel at a time, the Ceton card was a welcome upgrade for DVR v2.0. The installation and configuration is straightforward and will take about 1 hour depending on your level of expertise. Here's a rough outline of the steps you'll need to follow.1. Pickup a CableCard from your CableCo. (They may tell you a home visit is mandatory, violating an FCC directive. Read on below.)2. Open up the PC and insert the...
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May 16, 2011 (State College, PA) | Helpful Votes: 196 | Rating: 4

Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB

Regular Price: $261.36 | Price with discount: $189.00 | You Save: $72.36 (28%)

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Customer Review

Ceton Infinitv 4 USB is Awesome...........
I purchased the Ceton Infinitv 4 USB as soon as it was released. Set up with Windows Media Center was very easy. Bit of advice, download the latest drivers from Ceton's Support site prior to installation. I had a couple of problems and Ceton's support was quick to answer my questions. The problems were not with the device, but rather the user. Activating the cable card with my cable company Comcast was difficult. It took three days to actually get it working correctly. The problem was not with the device, but rather the cable company. They had to make sure the Cablecard was in their inventory as a one-way card then they actually had to activate as a one-way instead of a two-way card. Once they had it activated it worked flawlessly. I am running Windows 7 with 3ghz processor and 8gb of ram and have no problem recording up to 4 shows and watching tv through 3 xbox media extenders at once. This device works great and now my wife is no longer bugging me to buy 3 tivo's with lifetime...
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October 25, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 17 | Rating: 5

Works
This product works like they said it does. Had to call Comcast twice to pair the cablecard, second time worked. They had left the data number off the first time. Can now watch TV and record 3 programs at once. Quality of the picture is as good or better than with Comcast's DVR. Great product.
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October 28, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

Product Description

4-Tuner, External, Digital Cable Tuner Card - replace your cable set-top box and use Windows 7's built-in Media Center functionality to watch and record four live cable TV channels simultaneously, including HD and premium channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz. InfiniTV 4 USB uses the same award-winning technology as Ceton's InfiniTV 4 PCIe, the world's best-selling digital cable tuner for the PC. When used with Media Center Extenders like the Xbox 360, you can stream cable live or recorded channels throughout the home over the home network, using only a single cable connection and single CableCARD from your cable operator. Requires Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, or Windows 7 Ultimate and an available USB port on your PC. Top to learn more

Ceton PCIe vs. HD Homerun Prime vs. Ceton USB
The Ceton USB tuner is the last of 3 different CableCard tuners I have set up. I own a PCIe Ceton card, the HD Homerun Prime 6 tuner unit and the Ceton USB. (Yes, that is 14 HD cable streams!!) In short the PCIe is the hands down king of CableCard tuners, the HD Homerun Prime has tuner pooling, and the Ceton USB is pulling up the rear.The Ceton PCIe unit has been by far the easiest set up, most stable and the best card of the three. It has never had a glitch, it was set up and running in no time, the cable company techs had very little difficulty getting it going and it has never ever shown so much as a single pixel of picture faults. No "tiling" and no slow downs. No over demands on the computer. The only cons with the Ceton PCIe card are the heat inside the box and the lack of tuner pooling. Until I could get the other tuners up and running I was sharing the PCIe tuner with two other PCs running Media Center which worked flawlessly on a wired network. However, without...
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December 30, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 4

Windows 7 Vista XP Media Center MCE PC Remote Control and Infrared Receiver for Home, Premium and Ultimate Edition

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Play Music Right from your remote control (Control your DVD/VCD/MP3/Audio media functions directly and easily from your remote control) Mouse Function: Control your cursor without a mouse One remote to contol all of your digital media Infrared wireless freedom up to 10 meters Friendly Media Center Menu (The Microsoft Media Centre Edition on-screen menus are specially for Remote Control interaction) Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Product Description

Product Specifications: o Number of keys: 46 keys & 3 mouse keys o Remote: 199 x 54 x 34 mm o Weight: Around 95g o Compatibility OS: Windows XP with MCE, Vista Premium and Vista Ultimate o Computer: One USB Port o Transmission Distance: 10 meter o Battery Type: 2 AAA Batteries Package Include Top to learn more

Good remote, takes some tweaking for use with logitech universal remote
So I bought this remote with the intent of only using it's IR receiver and programming my Harmony one to control Windows 7 Media Center 64 bit. I found out, however, that the remote isn't in logitech's remote database, and also doesn't seem to use the generic microsoft codes that most remotes use. I therefore had to manually "teach" the harmony my remote's codes in RAW format. The problem with this is that this method caused significant lag and delay that I couldn't fix with inter-device and inter-key delays/repeats in Logitech's manual setup. After an afternoon on the phone with logitech level 2 support, I was finally able to remove the lag/delay and get my remote functioning properly. If one is planning on using this remote and included IR receiver together as intended, I would definitely recommend it. It works very well with WMC, and I haven't found anything wrong with it. It is quick and responsive, and all commands work properly. I'm mainly writing this review for others who...
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February 7, 2010 (Kentucky) | Helpful Votes: 154 | Rating: 4

Works well, but a few flaws
This remote connects easily and works well for Windows Media Center. However, I bought this for use with XBMC only to discover that this is not truly a "remote"; It simulates keyboard presses instead, which means that an advanced remote config program such as EventGhost cannot be used as it does not identify almost all of the buttons on the remote. This is dissapointing because It cannot be remapped to work for a custom program (ie controlling winamp, itunes, XBMC, etc). If you are buying this for purely Windows Media Center, than go for it. It's a great deal. If you want something more out of your remote, then look elsewhere.
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November 28, 2009 (california) | Helpful Votes: 130 | Rating: 3

XP, Vista, and Windows 7...it plays 'em all!
Bought this to replace my aging ATI Remote Wonder. Needed something that would work on XP MCE 2005 and Vista, as I have to keep a version of XP on my computer for work. I have triple booted XP MCE 2005/Vista Home Prem/Win7(RC) on my machine and this baby works with all of them. No installation disc needed. Also Works with PowerDVD 7 & 8. Mouse control is a little slow but I don't use it much. Works from anywhere in my room, even if it's not pointed at the IR receiver! Buying a second (and maybe a third for backup) for my HTPC. Best price of all the MCE remotes too!
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July 7, 2009 (Omaha, NE United States) | Helpful Votes: 39 | Rating: 4

SiliconDust HDHR3-CC HDHomeRun PRIME CableCARD TV tuners

Regular Price: $249.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details TV sources: Unencrypted digital cable TV, Premium digital cable TV Works with existing HDHomeRun Units, HDHomeRun PRIME can be added to your existing, Compatible With: Windows Media Center (for use with encrypted or copy controlled content), Three Tuners: Anywhere on Your Network QAM64/256 Works with popular DVR software Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

Does what it claims, however...
HDHomeRunPrime provides cable card decryption for my Comcast TV. Converting the encrypted channels that you pay for (anything above ch 30 and above) into IPTV format.I have tested it with Microsoft Media Center and have found that it works well streaming the content real time over the Ethernet. For those who do not have Microsoft you should be glad to know that they support a variety of TV watching applications (on Linux to boot). However their is one big thing to note. If a broadcast has been flagged on TV you cannot watch or record it on any program except Microsoft Media Center. Be sure to check to see if your TV provider flags all broadcasts or leaves it off by default. Comcast (which I have) leaves about 99% of their TV programing un-flagged by default. ALSO for flagged broadcasts be sure your have a complete hdcp complaint setup as the flag requires that type of DRM.Now as for streaming stability, I have noticed that if you go to wireless and attempt to access...
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October 17, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 31 | Rating: 5

Seems to live up to the promises!
Hard to believe I'm the first one on with this incredible item but here goes! I pre-ordered this item and got it this past weekend. At this moment in time, it seems to live up to all the promise.Pros-> Cable Company & Cable Card compatibilty - Great-> Hardware - Great-> Software - size was great, light on features-> Administrative / Network Connectivity - Great, but only on a DHCP enabled network. Nothing in the box talks about a default IP address to connect to a web admin screen of any kind or even direct connect to administer.-> Clients finding on network - Great-> Multiple clients - installed and had it working from multiple PCs in house, didn't seem to overwrite each other. Performance monitor did seem to show 18-33% of the 100mbps LAN connection in use when streaming/watching HD and about 2.5 GB RAM. So you can't ignore the need for a solid network connection but it was so impressive to watch reliably from one computer while...
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September 6, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 22 | Rating: 5

Product Description

The HD HomeRun Prime CableCard -Three Tuners: Anywhere on Your Network: Watch TV from any computer on your network. Record full 1080i broadcast resolution, Watch, Pause, Record & Rewind Live TV, Schedule and record all your favorite TV shows, Expand with multiple HDHomeRun devices. TV sources: Unencrypted digital cable TV, Premium digital cable TV. Works with popular DVR software: Watch, Pause, Record, & Rewind Live TV, Record all your favorite TV shows by name, Integrated TV guide (provided by the DVR software). Works with existing HDHomeRun Units: HDHomeRun PRIME can be added to your existing, HDHomeRun device set up to allow for additional tuners on your home network. Allows multiple signal input sources on the same network. Compatible with: Windows Media Center (for use with encrypted or copy controlled content). Other Popular DVR Programs (for use with copy freely content) Specifications: 3 digital tuners supporting QAM64/256, 1000BASE-T high speed network (Gig-E), Multistream CableCARD (M-Card) slot, 1 year warranty Requirements: Dual core recommended for HD playback, 2 GB RAM recommended, 1-4 GB per 1/2 hour of DTV recording, Subscription to applicable digital cable programming tier, PC running Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise, Multistream CableCARD (M-Card) device from your cable provider, Tuning adapter/resolver from the cable provider. Top to learn more

Great, after a little work
I've been following this product since it was first promised earlier this year. I read all the gotchas, problems, etc, and thought I would be able to use that knowledge to help when I finally got the product myself and installed it. I also have an HDHR so thought it would be similar. Here's my experience:I received it today (wonderful one-day shipping from Amazon), and had picked up my MCard (CableCard) at Cox yesterday. Hooked everything up, plugged everything in, and went through the install - so far pretty straightforward. The setup did upgrade the firmware to 20110830, however, on SiliconDust's website they've released 20110920beta1, so I went ahead and upgraded to the latest. Finally get to the part where you call your cable company, and that's where things started getting interesting. The first call activated successfully, and I thought it was done, I said thank you and goodbye. But I only got basic channels, not extended (no ESPN, CNN, etc). So I called...
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September 24, 2011 (South Bay, CA) | Helpful Votes: 64 | Rating: 4

Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 Dual Tuner Cable Card TV Tuner

Regular Price: $149.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Cable card tv tuner Simple to install via USB Watch and record premium cable TV on your PC Works with Windows 7 media center Dual tuner Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

Good CableCard tuner for the price
I just received this tuner today, and have had it running for about four hours, so I will edit if I encounter any issues in the next few weeks.Preliminary review - good tuner for its price range. If you don't need the four tuners in the Ceton InfiniTV, or the three tuners in the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime, this two-tuner box from Hauppauge is worth the look. As for me, I already had a card for ClearQAM, so I didn't really need more than two tuners. HD quality on my HTPC is equal to the quality from the cable company DVR (which is going back tomorrow!).First things first - don't even mess with the CD in the box, download the latest software and firmware directly from Hauppauge. The firmware has been updated at least twice in the last two weeks, and will probably be updated quite frequently as more features are added.Following the instructions in the box, installation went smoothly. I did encounter a bit of a hiccup in getting my CableCard...
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September 13, 2011 (Omaha, NE USA) | Helpful Votes: 32 | Rating: 5

Excellent tuner,love it
I pre-ordered it month ago from Hauppauge website and received yesterday even though they promised to ship it after August 22. It took me 1 hour to drive to RCN location to pickup CableCard and I spent 1+ hour to install and activate CableCard. BTW it is using HDHomeRun Prime software/firmware and installation procedure is very similar.WinTv 2650 is very good option when you don't need more than two tuners or don't plan to share tuners between multiple computers.
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August 19, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

Product Description

WinTV-DCR-2650 is a dual tuner CableCARD receiver set top box for your Windows 7 PC. Users are now able watch and record PREMIUM cable TV on your PC. Simple to install via USB, the DCR-2650 works with Windows 7 Media Center. Top to learn more

Woks ok, but has to be unplugged every now and then...
I bought this mainly for the price... it was $75.00 cheaper than the HD Homerun Prime by Silicon Dust. It has one less tuner (2 instead of 3) and lacks the network sharing feature of the HD Homerun. Basically, you plug it into the wall, and connect it to your computer (via USB). Then plug a coax in for your cable line. You have to have an M-Card from your cable company. I have Comcast in South Jersey and I was able to go to my local Comcast office and pick up a cablecard free of charge.Once you plug everything in, you go into Media Center and run through the setup. At one point during the setup, you'll get a screen with three numbers that you have to give to Comcast to activate the card. There's a self-install line that you should call instead of the general number. It's mentioned in another review on here, so search the reviews for Comcast and you should find it.After I called, I completed the setup in Media Center and I was good except I didn't get...
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February 2, 2012 | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 3

SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual High Definition Digital Television HDHR3-US (Black)

Regular Price: $156.00 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details TV sources: ATSC digital TV (antenna), Unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM), DVB-T digital TV (antenna) Works with popular DVR software Requirements: Dual core recommended for HD playback, 1 GB RAM recommended, 1-4 GB per 1/2 hour of DTV recording Two Digital Tuners, Anywhere on Your Network Seamless operation with multiple computers Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

The TV Tuner to Get
In my house, I have a Linux home theatre PC in the TV room attached to the plasma. I have a Linux media server attached to an older TV in the basement for recordings. My wife has a Windows 7 PC on her desk. I have a MacBook Pro which I carry about and is on the home wireless network. So 4 screens in the house. All of which can call upon the HDHomerun attached to the rooftop antenna for high definition broadcast television of excellent quality, and very good reliability. The ability to share and the ease of configuration are the strong points of this device. I would not encumber my laptop with a USB dongle and a stiff length of RG-6 cable, just to watch TV, not when I have 802.11n wireless networking capable of carrying multiple HD streams at once. Nor would I want to split my antenna feed to give each PC a line in the off chance I'd want to view on it. And I certainly don't want to deal with indifferently supported USB drivers under Linux, or trying to find a home for my old PCI tuner...
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March 13, 2011 (Nashua, NH) | Helpful Votes: 140 | Rating: 5

Product Description

The HD HomeRun Dual- Two Digital Tuners, Anywhere on Your Network: Watch TV from any computer on your network, Record full 1080i broadcast resolution, Watch, Pause, Record, & Rewind Live TV, Schedule and record all your favorite TV shows, Expand # of tuners with multiple HDHomeRun devices. TV sources: ATSC digital TV (antenna), Unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM), DVB-T digital TV (antenna). Works with popular DVR software: Watch, Pause, Record, & Rewind Live TV, Schedule future or season recordings, Record all your favorite TV shows by name, Integrated TV guide (provided by the DVR software), Never miss your favorite show. Seamless operation with multiple computers: Run Windows Media Center on multiple computers sharing the pool of HDHomeRun tuners, Tuners are automatically allocated between computers as needed, Multiple HDHomeRun units can be used together to expand the number of tuners, Tuner pooling works with Windows Media Center, Free software / firmware upgrade available for download Compatible with: Windows Media Center, Elgato EyeTV - DVR for Mac, MythTV - DVR for Linux, SnapStream BeyondTV- DVR for Windows, SageTV- DVR for Windows/Linux/Mac, MediaPortal - DVR for Windows, GB-PVR - DVR for Windows. VLC - Multi-platform media viewer TSReader. MPEG-2 transport stream analysis. Specifications: 8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital TV), QAM64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV), 100baseTX high speed network, 1 year warranty Requirements: Dual core recommended for HD playback, 1 GB RAM recommended, 1-4 GB per 1/2 hour of DTV recording Top to learn more

Installation can be non-trivial
The installation may be non-trivial if you already have another tuner on your PC. If you do not have a pre-existing tuner, then I would think the HDHR3 setup would be extremely easy.For my setup, I had toa) disable the Windows7 LAN firewall (until I got it working and specifically added firewall rules for the two programs involved (QuickTV and Windows Media Center)b) remove my other QAM tuner device and deleted all the old program guide data from Windows7 Media Center to get the HDHR3 channels to be seen inside Windows Media Center without manually adding them each, one-at-a-time. This involved more complexities than can be explained here.c) Every time I ran the HDHR3 setup program, the bad firewall settings are put back. I'm running the latest available windows software from 2 weeks ago. Be certain you get the latest available from the SiliconDust website.IP AddressesThere is no way to set a static IP within the device. You'll need a...
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April 21, 2011 (Georgia USA) | Helpful Votes: 21 | Rating: 4