CableCard, what's up with that?!?!

[mkenyon2]

This article talks about it's slow up-take:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...boxes.html

But then here's one with Quad-Card support (4 CableCard/Tuners)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/canno...nter-rigs/

Where are the PCI-X cards to put in our machines? Probably won't see them any time soon:
http://www.edbott.com/mediacenter/archiv...ia-center/

Any vendor that wants to build an OCUR [Open Cable Unidirectional Receiver] device has to take it through a certification process at CableLabs which is well-defined. They have a number of certification waves that happen at scheduled times every year. It’s a published test suite that it has to pass. So, that has to happen for the device that receives cable and translates cable conditional access from the CableCARD to Windows Media DRM.

DRM? YEACHK! I'd like to take that Quad-Card system and try PVRx2 with it.

Thoughts, gripes, comments, news? Let's discuss.

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These PBDA devices are only usable in Vista Media Centre.

[flyswatta]

These PBDA devices are only usable in Vista Media Centre.

That's a conversation killer right there :p