Hauppauge to expand its offerings to include a CableCARD tuner
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Sep 12th 2009 3:46PM
posted Sep 12th 2009 3:46PM
The tuner company that we never seem to be able to pronounce correctly is planning on adding a digital cable tuner with CableCARD to its lineup. No word on price or availability but the initial seemly over ambitions timeframe was this year. Our friends at Geek Tonic were able to confirm the the company's plans for the new tuner, but also learned that there is little hope that the new device will make it to market before the Ceton tuner, and in fact the actual release is still undeterminable. The good news is that there will be some competition in the PC digital cable tuner market which is always a good thing, in fact at this point we wouldn't be surprised if Avermedia was the next to throw its hat into the mix. [Via GeekTonic]
It would be great it this was external and would work with a Mac.
Why? I'm pretty sure that at this point all TV Tuner news is going to be specifically intended for Windows 7 compatability.
Apple hasn't figured how to put 'a bag of hurt' into a Big Mac yet. What makes you think they will see the value of CableCARD?
Oh well, I already blew $400 on ATI CableCard Tuners, just means I'll be enjoying it before everyone else. :)
To find out how to pronounce Hauppauge correctly, just call them up and listen when the phone is answered and the name is said.
Unless they outsource their customer service to India :(
They don't outsource their tech support. Support was in NY and was great
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hauppauge,+new+york
Phonetic spelling please?
As Jim Gaffigan would say:
"HOP POCKET"
Hop Hog is how it is pronounced. I looked in to this a year or so ago because I kept wondering how to pronounce it and to find out why they would use such a damn stupid name. I guess they took after the city name of Hauppauge, NY.
Except that's not how Hauppauge, NY is pronounced.
It's Hop-pawg (or POG). Not Hop-hog.
Why? Because I have a Mac and I want to record all cable channels in HD, not just the clear QAM network channels like I'm doing with EyeTV.
I don't care if Apple does anything, nor do I expect them to. I want Hauppauge to create an external device.
Actually, what I'm really waiting for Apple to do is put streaming of movies, and TV, including live sports (kind of like Hulu), into Apple TV so that we don't have to have a computer and large hard disk to capture and store a video stream that's broadcasted at a predetermined time for playback at a later time.
I'm thinking it's a OS DRM support issue. MS, for better or worse, made DRM pretty central to Vista and 7. Protected path stuff. Not that everything has to use that path, but it's there when required.
Not sure CableLabs would be comfortable with alternative OSs that haven't embedded stuff that deep.
AndyS is correct. Everyone made a big deal about how terrible it was that Microsoft put DRM technology into Vista, but what they don't realize is that it was necessary to get things like BluRay and CableCARD support. Apple will have to do the same thing in order to get those features in Mac OS.
I grew up in Hauppauge, NY. It is pronounced HAW-POG.
I need to revise that...it is HA-POG, not HAW-POG.
That sounds like a bag of hurt!