http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/ Engadget Comments for Windows Vista Digital Cable Tuners: don't call it OCUR http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/
I hope ATI still releases a PCI Express card so we don't have to have these big ugly boxes plugged into our PC's to use cable card.]]>Jan 6th 2007 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/I was so looking forward to this until they decided that it would only work with certified PCs. There's no way I'm buying a new computer just to have cable card support. ]]>Jan 6th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/Jan 6th 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/Jan 7th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/
They are really screwing this up.]]>Jan 7th 2007 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/
If this is a replacement for the set-top box I already have, isn't it just a DIFFERENT set-top box?]]>Jan 12th 2007 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/ Yes CableCARD could eliminate the STB. It could get rid of the complexities of using an analog tuner, plus and OTA HD antenna, plus the STB firewire just to access the channels you already pay for from your PC (as I do on my custom HTPC rig).
It could enable the plug-and-play ease of popping the OCUR card into the Media Center Edition PC some people already PAID for (I have not) giving you a really fun and easy-to-use machine. But it will not.
It will only be provided with new PCs from the big-name OEMs.. Forget the small OEMs and DIYers that have developed these concepts of practical living-room PCs, extenders, and so on. Releasing the OCUR cards to a larger audience could usher in a wave of new consumer innovation still dependent on MSFT for an OS and hardware that provides the framework. Instead it will find its way into a few living rooms of those who have no idea what it is or how to take it apart and understand it, let alone use it.
It will become an add-on to overpriced POS machines from Gateway; and the rest of us will sit down and figure out ways to steal it or otherwise continue to rip-off these companies that so easily rip us off.]]>Jan 30th 2007 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/06/windows-vista-digital-cable-tuners-dont-call-it-ocur/Feb 22nd 2007 5:48PM