Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe for $169 AC + FS @newegg

Great Deal!
I'm going to hold off a few months though, in order to see how good Ceton's new hardware will be. The Echo and Q should be pretty sweet, and I'm sure there will be an updated tuner card coming as well.

Quote from coolpez : Great Deal! I'm going to hold off a few months though, in order to see how good Ceton's new hardware will be. The Echo and Q should be pretty sweet, and I'm sure there will be an updated tuner card coming as well.

The new tuner will InfiiTV6 with 6 tuners instead of 4.

Having paid $430 and waited 6 months to get it, I have to say, it is well worth the $430, and an absolute steal at $170.

If you really need the hexa-tuner, be prepared to pay full price, like we did with the InfiniTV4 2.5 years ago.

Quote from henlai10 : You will most likely need a Tuning adapter which the cable company should provide for free. I have xbox 360 as extenders in all the rooms that I want TV in. I love my Ceton!

It depends on the cable operator. Time Warner users and Charter users generally will. FiOS and Comcast users won't. Cox can go either way. Most of the rest do not need them.

Quote from Buckerou : How? More please on this topic as I am in same boat. TY

www.thegreenbutton.tv is the place to read about setting it up. It is very straight forward, and you probably already have 90% of the hardware needed.

Quote from rsriram22 : The idea is you get a "m-card" from you provider (not satellite dish providers, but the cable provider, say comcast) and do a self install (to avoid the truck roll 'fee'). during self install, call up comcast and get the card activated and check you get all your SD/HD channels and you should be good to go. the flip side to this is that you cannot get any PPV or On-Demand programming using these cablecard tuners.... oh and by the way, your DVR box fees should go away and you should be charged ~2-3 bucks per month as cablecard 'fee'. hope this helps..

http://customer.comcast.com/help-...-cablecard

For Comcast:

Quote : Your first CableCARD is provided at no charge; if you need a second one for the same device, you’ll be charged $1.50/month.

I would get this if cable weren't such a bundled ripoff.

Quote from blueiedgod : The new tuner will InfiiTV6 with 6 tuners instead of 4. Having paid $430 and waited 6 months to get it, I have to say, it is well worth the $430, and an absolute steal at $170. If you really need the hexa-tuner, be prepared to pay full price, like we did with the InfiniTV4 2.5 years ago.

For those that are raving about this, why did you choose a pcie tuner over a network-based tuner, like the hdhomerun, aside from the option of a 4th tuner?

Quote from hooha23 : For those that are raving about this, why did you choose a pcie tuner over a network-based tuner, like the hdhomerun, aside from the option of a 4th tuner?

That's the only benefit, 4th tuner. The Prime's firmware finally became stable again on the 8/23 beta.

From people who own both, they all say the HDhomerun Prime tunes channel changes way faster then the Ceton, even though its networked =). Go figure. I admit, the Prime does tune as fast as a STB and behaves great esp if you have 2x on gigabit. Networked tuners allow you to hide them, makes a big difference if you need a TA and dont want crap messing up the feng shui of your theater setup. Yes, looks matter for theater setups.

I used to have one of these (bought it last year when it was $400 and a month wait), but sold it and later bought a HD Homerun. Both work great and are easy to setup, but I prefer the HD Homerun since it's external and can be used by any device on my network.

Quote from hooha23 : For those that are raving about this, why did you choose a pcie tuner over a network-based tuner, like the hdhomerun, aside from the option of a 4th tuner?

Well... after having 2x ATI DCTs for a few years, and then AMD dropping support for it and Verizon switching to simulcast, there was no one else but Ceton that had an alternative on the market.

Ceton cornered the market, everyone else is a "me too"

Besides, having an internal tuner was not a problem since HTPC is already in an nMedia case in the entertainment center fitting right in with the rest of the AV equipment.

Network tuner may be a good alternative to people who employ multiple HTPC's through the house. We have 1 HTPC and 4 MEdia Center Extenders connecting 5 TV's in the house, and it works just as intended. Copyright protected content can be played on any of the TV's and they all share the guide and recording schedule. Just the way Microsoft had intended it to work.

Don't want to derail the thread but thought someone here might know:

If I get the HD Home Run prime, but choose later to not have cable, can I still use it to take the antenna feed and watch that? In other words does it have a QAM tuner?

I bought one from amazon for $199; it's been quite good, although I had some issues setting up (crummy Gigabyte mobo PCIe slot issues).

Quote from blueiedgod : Network tuner may be a good alternative to people who employ multiple HTPC's through the house. We have 1 HTPC and 4 MEdia Center Extenders connecting 5 TV's in the house, and it works just as intended. Copyright protected content can be played on any of the TV's and they all share the guide and recording schedule. Just the way Microsoft had intended it to work.

Can you watch TV on a linux pc without an extender?

for that matter can i can watch TV on a linux PC using HD Homerun prime?

Hoping amazon will match this (I have a lot of amazon GC credit). Trying the "found a lower price" link:
http://www.amazon.com/Ceton-Infin...+infinitv#

Quote from hooha23 : For those that are raving about this, why did you choose a pcie tuner over a network-based tuner, like the hdhomerun, aside from the option of a 4th tuner?

Yah, unless you just want a single PC TV tuner forever, the hdhomerun is so much more flexible, can watch on any Win7/8 PC or Xbox 360 too. Not sure what else would compel anyone to these for the price.