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On the scene at EHX Spring 2009
All the economic woes won't stop the custom integrator market from getting together at the Electronic Home Expo in Orlando this past week, but it sure did slow it down. We spent the first day of the show scouring the floor for cool new stuff and overall came away disappointed. The show was much, much smaller this year and the demos in Demo Alley weren't that impressive either. There were a few gems though, so we went ahead and snapped a few pictures which are included in a gallery below. A few of the highlights were a first hand look at The Media Center University, a few new ways to run wires to our HDTVs, and an up close look at the new MX-6000 from Universal Remote Control.
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Let's be honest, getting a CableCARD to work with Windows Media Center is far, far, far from a smooth process. Thankfully, the Media Center Integrator Alliance -- this sort of the things is its bag, naturally -- are set to show off a Digital Cable Tuner Diagnostics tool at next week's Electronic House Expo. It'll provide all kinds of information on your tuner and CableCARD, including modulation type, format, frequency, carrier, PCR Lock, encoding level, and authorization -- and if all that goes way over your head, there's an option to export the data to XML and send it to someone who can help. No word on when we'll see an official release, but no matter what, it won't be soon enough.
