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It’s a good thing I say ‘think’ when I’m not sure.

Thanks for clarifying.

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Thanks for posting this guide. News of this new feature is what made me finally decide to buy a Ceton, and not wait on the 3 tuner SiliconDust device. I’ve decided to buy a BD-enabled Atom/Ion or a Core i3 PC in the Spring for the bedroom. I’ll share one of the 4 tuners on that. The ZOTAC ZBOXHD-ID34BR is a front runner.

Extenders never did everything I wanted of it, and now, I won’t have to compromise.
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I actually tested the Tuner Sharing on a ZOTAC AtomIon2.  Worked out great.

The only downside is anything not marked Copy-Freely will need to be recorded on each HTPC if you want it viewable from anywhere.  This is honestly not a concern for me since only premium content is marked by Comcast as Copy-Once.  I also don’t archive Recorded TV.

I’ll hopefully have my shared guide implementation released before the beta firmware goes public.
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HAHA, didn’t even notice the article right below. I’m well aware of the limitations of Copy Once and all that, but I figure that it increases the WAF when she can record watch her own shows on her own HTPC and has access to everything the one in the living room does.

As for sharing within Home Group, I think Ben Draw from EHD had said the DRM doesn’t have support for domains, and that’s why this doesn’t work.

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Thanks for posting this guide. News of this new feature is what made me finally decide to buy a Ceton, and not wait on the 3 tuner SiliconDust device. I’ve decided to buy a BD-enabled Atom/Ion or a Core i3 PC in the Spring for the bedroom. I’ll share one of the 4 tuners on that. The ZOTAC ZBOXHD-ID34BR is a front runner.

Extenders never did everything I wanted of it, and now, I won’t have to compromise.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
ditto on the ridiculousness here…yet another example of Microsoft committing to something and then doing it half ass. Raise your hand if you remember MCX Extenders??? How about Sideshow devices???

Hopefully they can figure this out soon…but Dan…quit putting ideas in Mikinho’s head!!! 😛
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The extender talk needs to end, most of them sucked (and thus, didn’t sell well) in comparison to the one that was most popular by default…the Xbox 360. Now, most people don’t want to buy ‘a console’ as an extender, but think of it this way: what’s it matter what it’s main purpose is if you don’t use it that way? Even today, the PS3 is a better Blu-Ray/DVD/CD/MP3/Netflix/YouTube/* box than it is a games system. On the sneak, its one of the two best all-in-one super media boxes out there (lack of MKV support notwithstanding_. Take it form me, as an avid gamer, who bought the thing not too long after launch.

And I can’t even name a sideshow device that ever even came out.

The thing about MS is every department is self-contained. They never work together, in fact its more that they’re actually competing with each other. One department wouldn’t want anothers’ code ‘contaminating’ their stuff. I’d started realizing this on my own, and it was pretty much confirmed a while back on the Windows Weekly podcast. Ed Bott, and Mary Jo Foley (two tech journalists who focus pretty much on Microsoft) joined Paul for an episode, and pretty much said this is whats been going on at MS since the beginning.

What’s truly bizarre is that this doesn’t explain a damned thing in this case. The chat pad wasn’t the last 360 accessory to be released, so MS didn’t ‘drop’ support or anything, they must have just never seen the use for drivers. Once it was out the door, unless it had major issues, like the wireless headset once did, they didn’t do anything else to it, and so it was ‘case closed’ as far as they were concerned.

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Here’s another review posted by newfiend at TGB: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gt-430-review/1

AMD’s open-source 3D initiative seems pretty interesting and seems noteworthy that they will support their 5xxx and perhaps even some 4xxx cards.
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Nvidia’s 3D support is 2 years old, if not more, so just about any nvidia card you’d wanna buy can do it now. Its nice being able to demo 3D with red/blue ‘glasses’ in lieu of 3DTV support from 3DTV Play for those of us who aren’t gonna buy a 3DTV for a long ass time.

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[quote=”Mikinho”]That is why I said “first HTPC-centric consumer”.  The GTX 460 and 450 already offer it but neither is very HTPC friendly w/ the higher power consumption.  The GT 420 also offers it but it is an OEM only card.
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Ahh, gotcha. Big difference.

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Wait a sec, this isn’t the first card to do this from Nvidia, that would have been the GTX 460. This card, however, is a better physical fit for an HTPC.

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[quote=”autoboy”]SageTV can be very stable if you can just quit fiddling with it.[/quote]

The same can be said of any HTPC app.

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That sounds very likely, but you’d think if that was the case, then more people would have the same issue. the HDHR is a popular device, there’s gotta be more than one Ceton owner who also has an HDHR. Oddly enough, there’s likely a large number of those who got rid of/removed the HDHR when they got the Ceton.

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I came back to this thread after how many hours its been since I posted, and so its been on my mind what I said, and just I want to say I don’t think the poll was biased in any way, or was it intended to get a certain outcome. All I’m saying is that a good number of Sage users come to this site, as its one of the few that I know of that continually posts Sage-related news.

On the contrary, if this poll was on Engadget, it’d be much different. I’d say XBMC/Plex/Boxee would do much better, probably than 7MC.

In all, I think I could have used better words to get across my meaning. I’m not trying to imply any intended bias.

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This is a Sage-centric site in many ways, and I think that the poll would have turned out differently on another site.

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[quote=”flips”]
wow.  the cheapest GTX 460 on newegg is $170.  That’s a hard sell compared to a $50 HD5XXX card.
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Or the the integrated GPU in the Clarksdale i3.

But the use for an HTPC with a card with the power of a GTX 460 is for gaming. An i3, combined with a 460 or similar card, would do very well with most current PC games, even Crysis. Most these newer non-Atom HTPC machines would be fine for gaming if they just had a proper GPU.

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