http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/ Engadget Comments for ATI stops shipping CableCARD tuners due to bugs, will resume soon 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/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/That best sums up my feelings about the Vista/CableCARD debacle.

I bet people with home brewed PCs wouldn't mind the bugs...I would in fact welcome them.]]>Apr 5th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
But that's the cable industry for us, more interested in making sure their butts are covered than makeing sure the consumer has a highly functional device]]>Apr 5th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2959
At any one point there were mutliple representatives from three different companies in the room to set up a cablecard PC: Dell, Time Warner, Microsoft.
It's that or simply pay $9 to rent a HD DVR (albeit shitty) from your cable provider.]]>Apr 5th 2007 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/It's good that ATI/AMD and also Nvidia are now invloved as they will kick the tires and shake out the issues afr quicker than the individual users.
I can't wait for these to become available to individual system builders rather than OEMs. It WILL happen.]]>Apr 5th 2007 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/Apr 5th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
Better yet, the box has a functional eSATA port on it so I can expand drive capacity indefinitely!

Sure it has its quirks but it works and I can capture video from it in full HD quality.

--Shane]]>Apr 5th 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
http://dailytech.com/AMD+OCUR+CableCard+Bug+Delays+Media+Center+Shipments/article6805.htm]]>Apr 5th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
As a side note, i'm not surprised ATI and Microsoft are having trouble with CableCard. The cable companies themselves are having loads of trouble, so much to the point they really discourage customers from getting cable cards. They are really going into this kicking and screaming. My cable company (its a small local one) went so far as to tell me that they didn't support cable card at all over email, only to find out they did when I called them. They tried to give me the run around and say that they charge more for cable cards, but when I pressed them they told me that it was just the standard box rental fee. Then they tried to dissuade me with the lack of features blah blah blah no pay-per-view or digital music (who the hell uses either of these in the time of Netflix and ipods?) They then told me that they had been having a lot of problems with it and they were having to send techs out to fix them almost weekly and I would have to pay for any additional visits from a tech because I insisted on cablecard, plus that her supervisor would be pissed because he hates having to deal with cablecards.

Sorry, i just needed to vent my frustrating experience with cablecard, and I'm not even dealing with Vista. ]]>Apr 6th 2007 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
Yeesh, no need to get sarcastic...

This is only my third box with firewire ports. I had the Motorola DCT-6412 from Comcast in two different markets. Both of those had functional firewire ports as well but a number of people reported that theirs were diabled. I guess whether or not they are actually enabled depends on the market you are in. Point me at the law that says they MUST be enabled. I have not heard of that one...

I was just saying that if you don't mind capturing in real time it is a fairly painless way to get full quality video.

For a long time firewire was the only way to get digital video between devices. The ports on these DVRs were actually designed to be used with Digital VHS decks. Some early HD displays had firewire ports on them as well but that seems to have disappeared now that we have DVI and HDMI.

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http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/01/does-your-cable-box-have-a-firewire-port

]]>Apr 5th 2007 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/go read up on their HDTV tuner]]>Apr 5th 2007 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/
(no I don't pirate stuff, I just want CE equipment that I control. Hell, It's MINE!)

I love to build PC's. I'm pretty good at it, and crap like this is just so anti-consumer. I especially love building HTPC's. Guess its back to building good gaming PC's for people because this shite does not fly with me.]]>Apr 6th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/Apr 6th 2007 5:49PM