Silicon Dust and Hauppauge team up?

[pcostanza]

http://www.silicondust.com/company/news/

September 10th, 2010
Silicondust USA, Inc. and Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. announce alliance for PC based CableCARD™ conditional access digital TV tuners
Hauppauge to introduce an affordable USB attached, premium cable TV tuner for PCs and notebooks through its U.S. retail sales channel
Livermore, CA & Hauppauge, NY – Sept. 10, 2010 – Silicondust USA, Inc., based in Livermore, CA, today announced an alliance with Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. to introduce a USB-connected Digital TV Tuner product for use with CableCARD™ conditional access. This product leverages Silicondust’s design and technology to offer a new addition to Hauppauge’s line of TV tuner products.
This introduction adds native support for premium cable TV to the Hauppauge line of WinTV® tuners. The new TV tuner is USB connected and will work with notebook and netbook computers, in addition to standard desktop PCs.
Concurrently Silicondust will be introducing HDHomeRun® PRIME™ an Ethernet attached TV tuner product with CableCARD conditional access. HDHomeRun PRIME enables premium cable TV to be accessed across the network from any computer in the home.
The Hauppauge USB and Silicondust Ethernet attached products introduce affordable solutions in the cable TV tuner market for PCs. Both devices support M-Card™ conditional access and conform to the OpenCable™, OCUR and DRI specifications. Both devices support Switched Digital Video (SDV) in conjunction with a cable-provider-supplied tuning adapter / resolver. The products are designed for use with PCs running Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Windows Media Center.
The Hauppauge USB and Silicondust HDHomeRun PRIME products will support high-definition and other digital cable TV, including premium cable channels, direct to the computer.
Silicondust’s HDHomeRun PRIME product builds on the success of their original HDHomeRun® Network Attached ATSC / QAM Dual Tuner which enables customers to stream digital broadcast video across the home network, without being tethered to one computer in one location in the home.
“Silicondust is enthusiastic about this alliance with Hauppauge, a leading name in the computer tuner market for many years.” said Theodore Head, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicondust USA, Inc. “This allows retail options for both consumers and retailers alike, creating greater awareness of the market and expanding the number of choices available to fit differing needs.”
“Silicondust’s experience with digital cable access systems combined with Hauppauge’s strong computer TV tuner sales will produce a successful launch of this innovative product.” said Ken Plotkin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. said, “Moving forward, we believe affordable CableCARD conditional access TV products will increase the use of Windows Media Center as a full functional digital video recorder for the home.”
About Silicondust
Silicondust USA, Inc. is a San Francisco Bay Area based technology company that develops computer network attached digital TV products for consumer and commercial solutions. With detailed knowledge of network platforms and extensive hardware and software engineering, Silicondust continues to introduce innovative products that enable TV viewing from all computers on a home or office network. Silicondust works with OEM companies to integrate Digital TV into custom solutions.
For more information about Silicondust USA, Inc and HDHomeRun® products and solutions visit www.hdhomerun.com
About Hauppauge
Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAUP) is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computer. Through its Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. and Hauppauge Digital Europe Subsidiaries, the Company designs and develops digital video boards for TV-in-a-window, digital video editing and video conferencing. The Company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, with administrative offices in New York, Singapore, Taiwan, Ireland and Luxembourg and sales offices in Germany, London, Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Singapore and California.
For more information about Hauppauge Computer Works and products visit www.hauppauge.com
HDHomeRun is a registered trademark of Silicondust USA, Inc., HDHomeRun PRIME and Silicondust are trademarks of Silicondust USA, Inc. Hauppauge and WinTV are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. CableCARD, M-Card and OpenCable are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

[whurlston]

That's pretty cool! sub does this mean that WinTV will be natively supporting the HDHomeRun Prime (thereby giving you more access to the device and more insight into getting it to work with NPVR)?

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That's pretty cool! sub does this mean that WinTV will be natively supporting the HDHomeRun Prime (thereby giving you more access to the device and more insight into getting it to work with NPVR)?

I knew about this partnership for quite a while, but I dont know if it'll really help us too much more than previous speculation. ie, From NPVR's perspective it sounds like BDA drivers will make copy-freely channels available. From WinTV perspective, CableCard device are really about WMC, and will probably ship without WinTV.

[whurlston]

That's what I figured... just checking.