How well does the board work with HDCP for media center pc's? I use a CETON network cable card receiver and want it as a windows media center pc.
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95% of boards out there will be fine as a media center PC. It requires next to no performance power to run a media center PC
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This unit is a "Storage Center" or NAS device.Windows Media Center, Plex or many other application that will run on your PC may use the QNAP as the destination folder to store your recordings.I Happen to own a SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME 3-Tuner DLNA/UPnP Compatible Streaming Media Player, HDHR3-CC, it uses a cable card ($115.42 on amazon). I use this with windows media center, and it works great.
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No due to the cable card spec and the digital cable advisor (that must be installed) this product only works with win7 or win8. If you use third party programs to convert any copy-freely content to DVR-MS your XP box will be able to play the content. I have been using the ceton infini4 since 2 months after its release. I now have 3 cards or a total of 12 tuners in my personal TV server. And have configured more than 10 configs for clients... I would just break down and put a copy of win7 on your XP box. In addition Linux is possible but only for copy-freely channels. As of June10th 2013 my cable company, Verizon FiOS, has all channels copy-freely except for the pay movie channels
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I am connecting a PC, XBOX360, PS3 and PS4 to 2 different 1080P screens. I don't know what the HDCP requirement is, but this is a passive switch that connects input port X to output port Y with possible duplication. Only issue so far is the remote control's distance is rather short, other than that its great.
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Windows Media Center on my HTPC doesn't respond to it so I'm going to say probably not.
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It should work with any USB 2 or better port. I no longer use the tuner as I have installed a Ceton card in my HTPC. this was the Ceton 4 channel tuner.
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Buy any of the XBox Media Center remotes and they work great with the Ceton right out of the plastic. PC Media Center remotes with the USB dongle don't work with this. I have three of these and they work great Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote
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It would seem as if the most part - cable card integration with TVs have been a failure. In reality, it should have worked, but at the time you post this question, the cable companies were very lenient on required standards. And also at the time, they could have said they don't have any and there was nothing that can be done. Now, there are regulations for standards, and requirement of availability. In a matter of fact, new set top boxes you would get from the company has a cable card slot. However, this is too little - too late. TVs will now have to do more than just be a TV, and the manufacturers are falling behind in the needs I personally feel they must address. The main reason to get a cable card is reduction of fees and integration. What's the point of having a TV with a cable card slot if it can't record shows for you? If you are still looking for alternatives, Ceton Corp is what I noticed to be the best solution. They have PCI-X adapters, and USB 2 adapters that will allow you to plug your cable cable card into a Windows 7 PC. There are no fees such as from TiVo, but you may not like the clunky looking PC next to your TV. I will look into getting a dedicated machine that will look better for the home theater. The Ceton Adapter can support 4 simultaneous channels. In addition, they will have a DVR/Blu-Ray player coming later in the year that will support 6 simultaneous channels. However, if your goal was to get rid of the box and have just a TV, even 3 years later - this has been more of a pipe dream for the consumer.
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I'm now running it on a Dell XPS i7 Win 7 64-bit PC and it does a good job with the Dolby Digital output to a set of Boston Acoustic PC speakers with Dolby Digital support. I haven't tried it on a normal AV receiver with DTS so don't know it that problem been connected. I'm completely happy with it for the price of the board.
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Yes it is. In fact I tried DTS-HDMA and True-HD bitstreaming right through MPC-HC, over HDMI and it works like a charm once set up in the player. I guess this answers yours question, and I highly recommend this board for non-overclocking work. Mine's been working 2+ months since I built the rig 24/7, and have had no issues at all.
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Hi Works fine on htpc but you have to switch unit on manually first. I havnt tried it on PC but would think it will work the same way.
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I have no first hand experience with it on Windows 7, but according to Hauppauge, it should work. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/windows7_product_list.html. Good luck. Since Comcast switched to digital cable and require CableCards, I'm using a Ceton InfiniTV4 with Windows 7 Media Center have never looked back. The PVR-500 was a great solution for its time with analog cable and BeyondTV.
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Well I purchased one about a couple weeks ago and it's great, I've been using it for showbox, xbmc etc....check Internet connection
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You may want to check the Ceton site for recommendations. I've been using this with windows media center for over a year and outside of technical maintenance has worked out pretty well. I have two units in one computer and two xboxes as media center extenders.
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Plex works flawlessly. I never stream more then one video at a time, but with dual link gigabit should be no problem to do so.
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This device doesn't have anything to do with cable cards but is a windows media center extender. To actually receive the tv channels you need something like the ceton infinitv or hauppauge hdhomerun. Those would require a cable card.
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there is no indication from the manufacture, so you could goto there website and look see if they have drivers or offer information about it. Sense I refuse to upgrade my media center computer to windows 8 I couldn't tell you for sure.