Cable Card Connectivity for your Media Center Computer - Its Finally Coming to a PC Near You!

Well, its official, we’re finally taking a BIG step in the right direction with Windows Media Center 2005 PCs.  Microsoft announced an agreement with CableLabs which is the first of hopefully many agreements to come that will allow us to throw away those set top cable boxes and make it a heck of a lot easier to setup and configure Media Center PC’s for our customers if the set top boxes are out of the way.  For more information on this press release, use the hyperlinked title below.

Microsoft and CableLabs Announce Agreement to Enable High-Definition Digital Cable Programming on Windows-Based PCs

Future versions of Media Center PCs to receive digital cable programming without the need for a cable set-top box

Published Monday, November 21, 2005 12:15 AM by charlesv
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# re: Cable Card Connectivity for your Media Center Computer - Its Finally Coming to a PC Near You!

Friday, December 09, 2005 7:41 AM by Paul Miller
Link to article appears to be broken

# re: Cable Card Connectivity for your Media Center Computer - Its Finally Coming to a PC Near You!

Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:47 PM by charlesv
Paul,

The link is fixed, but the text is activing weird on the post. Here's the link to the article.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/nov05/11-16CableLabsPR.mspx