Our man Ben @ EngadgetHD has been
live blogging from CEDIA
He has brought us OFFICIAL great news!
- Media Center will officially support SDV for CableCard Tuners
- CableCard tuners will work on ANY PC! No longer has to be an OEM machine! (I had to use a refurbed Sony VGX-XL3)
Source:
EngadgetHD To the enthusiasts out there that are familiar with this, you're probably freaking out at the possibilities. As for the rest of you who think I'm a nutter, I'll translate. Media Center lately has had an uncertain fate. No one knew what the future for Media Center held since manufactures were ceasing production of extenders and CableCard DRM made life so horrible, that only the enthusiasts knew how to use it.
With DRM being relaxed, any consumer can add a CableCard tuner, and extending the product life of current CableCard tuners with the newly added SDV support -> a spark of life has been put back into Media Center! It means MS really hasn't forgot about us at
TGB.
I'm sure there will be more information to come. But as there is
a new hope for Media Center, they still have a lot of work to do to expand their audience beyond the enthusiasts.