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MuFu
05-Jan-2006, 11:54
At the show ATI is demonstrating the world's first and only CableCard HDTV tuner for PCs, and we were fortunate enough to get a hands-on demo of it.

Currently called ATI's OCUR (Open Cable Uni-directional Receiver), the CableCard tuner is presently only a technology demo, with the final product shipping alongside Windows Vista sometime in 2006 (Microsoft is officially saying "Holiday Season 2006"). Despite the early nature of the product, the reference design is done and simply waiting for Microsoft to ship their OS.

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662

HD-PVR, woop woop.
_xxx_
05-Jan-2006, 11:59
Hopefully we'll also get HDD's with a few tbytes capacity by then... :twisted:
london-boy
05-Jan-2006, 12:06
Hopefully we'll also get HDD's with a few tbytes capacity by then... :twisted:


Bluray drives anyone? :wink:
_xxx_
05-Jan-2006, 13:46
Bluray drives anyone? :wink:

...don't have enough speed for reliable direct recording of HD-material, at least not in a PC ;)
london-boy
05-Jan-2006, 14:04
...don't have enough speed for reliable direct recording of HD-material, at least not in a PC ;)

Course it does. 2-4X should do the job, but i could be totally wrong. U know, i think i still have more champagne than blood in my body...
_xxx_
05-Jan-2006, 14:20
Course it does. 2-4X should do the job, but i could be totally wrong. U know, i think i still have more champagne than blood in my body...

I meant the constant, solid transfer of data to the drive without hiccups, not the drive itself. Windows, encoding, background apps and all should eat up too much CPU cycles for that to work, at least in current high-end PC's.
london-boy
05-Jan-2006, 14:46
I meant the constant, solid transfer of data to the drive without hiccups, not the drive itself. Windows, encoding, background apps and all should eat up too much CPU cycles for that to work, at least in current high-end PC's.

I was actually going to add a sentence to mention "not sure if the system itself will manage the process..." but as i said, i have more alcohol in circulation than blood. :twisted:
CMAN
05-Jan-2006, 15:17
God I hope it works better than the HDTV Wonder Card...
MuFu
05-Jan-2006, 15:17
Press Release: http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=800664&highlight=
karlotta
05-Jan-2006, 16:29
Bluray drives anyone? :wink: when do u think we will be able to by a Bluray recorder? and will cost 2500$ at the start?
BRiT
06-Jan-2006, 03:36
Gawd I hope they'll enable it to work with WinXP instead of being Vista-only.
london-boy
06-Jan-2006, 10:57
when do u think we will be able to by a Bluray recorder? and will cost 2500$ at the start?

We don't know about the price, but Bluray drives are coming out relatively soon, surely sooner and probably cheaper than multi-terabytes HDD the post i replied to mentioned.
Ty
06-Jan-2006, 17:44
I meant the constant, solid transfer of data to the drive without hiccups, not the drive itself. Windows, encoding, background apps and all should eat up too much CPU cycles for that to work, at least in current high-end PC's.

Why wouldn't we expect there to be a buffer in RAM just like when burning a DVD/CD?

God I hope it works better than the HDTV Wonder Card...

I was thinking the same thing!!
BrynS
08-Jan-2007, 06:59
And lo' as the great Damage foretold (http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11564), look to my coming over yonder vista on the 390th day ere you first gazed (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2662&p=2) upon me and despair! :razz: