Sony selling the ATI TV Wonder CableCARD tuner all by its lonesome

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Xavier Lauwaert - Sony @ Oct 25th 2007 1:50PM

All,

I am the Product Manager for Sony's VAIO line of Digital Home products so please allow me to correct some comments made above:
- @ Chris, thank you for detailed and very correct comment on CableCARD usage with PCs.
- you are absolutely correct, only selected models qualify for usage with this TV Tuner
- as everyone can see, we posted the following cautionary note: "Compatible Models: Units already shipping with ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner"
- this is a secondary/optional CableCARD tuner for VAIO models that already ship with one such tuner.
- by offering this secondary tuner we wanted to enable our end users (who bought a VAIO model shipping with one tuner) to view and record simultaneously premium TV content (especially HD channels)
- the applicable units are selected models of the XL, AR and LT series shipping with one tuner already
- This is an ATi Digital Cable TV Tuner and is not rebranded VAIO. we just used the VGP-ANK1 naming for our internal purposes

In the hope this clarifies matters,

Xavier @ Sony

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Jon Tate @ Dec 27th 2007 7:44PM

Hi Xavier, I would like to hear your comments on the question I posed to Chris as well:

I'm just a bonehead consumer but if you have just a second, I sure would apreciate your advice. My cable company stinks so I signed up with DirectTV when I bought a new Sony XBR4 (1080P) Television (Circuit City gave me $300 off on the TV).

I also just bought a new HP M9000T media PC. The PC came with the ATI TV WONDER Digital Cable Tuner. When I talked to the guys at HP, I told them I wanted to be able to record HD content on my new BlueRay R/W that came with the machine. They told me I needed to buy this particular TV tuner because it had to be configured at the factory with Vista tweaks and internal card etc.

Can I use the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner with Direct TV to view and record HD content from Windows Vista Home Premium ("tweaked by HP")?

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