A Vista Desktop, Now With Cable Tuner
Early this week, PC Magazine Labs received a pre-production system from Dell, and this was no typical setup. In fact, it’s the first Vista desktop system with ATI’s TV Wonder Digital Cable tuner, also known as OCUR (OpenCable Unidirectional Receiver).
Dell will be selling this configuration in the next few months, with the hope that it will finally bridge the chasm between digital cable TV (including premium channels) and the Media Center experience. There are still a couple of drawbacks for the early-adopter contingent. Ultimately, however, by purchasing the XPS 410 with cable card you’ll finally be able to record HDTV, including premium channels like HBO and Showtime, on your MCE PC’s huge hard drive, and serve it to other TVs in your home.
Stay tuned for my preview of the system over the next day or so. In the meantime, check out our slideshow for a taste of what I’ve seen so far.
As you can see, this ATI is Vista Ready!
Comments(14)
Thanks for the post, but I have a comment to make on the recent technology posts appearing on RLSLOG. I don’t mind seeing the occasional bit of news about general technology, like info on bluray or HD-DVD etc. But specific bits of tech like this seem to only be of interest to a very small amount of people, and not really to do with scene releases. I mean, I visit a lot of tech sites already or read them via RSS, where this type of info is just what I expect.
There have been a few articles like this cropping up recently. I think this type of cross pollenation tends to dilute RLSLOG’s function. It can’t be filtered out from the scene related tech posts either, since they all come under the Tech News category. The fact that the post takes up 3 large images and more than a page height on a 1280×1024 monitor with regular font sizes seems excessive… how about the “…MORE” tag being used? Wordpress supports it after all.
Anyway, just a note from an interested reader.
Cheers!
@loco: Amen!!
What’s worse than the loss of focus is that these tech articles are so often misleading, biased, inaccurate, or just uninteresting.
Leave the tech news to sites that specialize in it and can do it correctly.
Scene release news is ALL that’s all ANYONE comes here for. Nobody comes here for other news, get real. Perhaps this is an ego question? Do you really think you guys are now legitimate and responsible journalists?
All this loss of focus has caused me to seriously consider quit visiting this site. In fact, as soon as I find a different site that lets me know what scene releases there have been, I will switch.
It’s like a restaurant, you’ll get the best customer satisfaction and following from a place who’s specialty and focus is one type of food. Not a place that serves all everything.
down with tech news!
or, you can say: it’s impossible to please everyone
Well certainly dont see any harm in having a tech corner, Infact i loved it the most, just need to ensure that we have links to the main reviews on other sites & keep it minimal
Where is the torrent link for this?
I like the tech posts.
yeah me too , i love them … anyway people for those that can`t read they are different RSS for games,movies and other stuff so use them gezz
I think tech news has their place when they are of intrest to a lot of people (like news about Vista cracks, quantum computing, terabyte harddrives etc), but this is such a niche newsitem that I’m wondering if it’s sponsored. If that is so, I can see the obvious reasons for the need/want to advertise, but PLEASE make it clear that this is paid news by adding (ADVERTISEMENT) after the header or something.
i think the tech news is great keep up the good work.
i am a big fan of the site and i check in at least 4 times a day, just to keep up to date.
keep it real.
@Raja – that’s the kind of thing I meant. Some way to limit the exposure of the articles is fine, either by putting them in a different category so we can filter them out ourselves, provide a short note and a link to the real article or at least use the Wordpress MORE tag so the huge copy-n-pasted article doesn’t spam the whole page
@Santa – the comment is the fact that *all* the tech articles, no matter how obscure, are being put in the Tech News category so it is impossible to differentiate between those and the more popular tech news items related to scene releases. Especially when these more obscure tech articles seem to be lifted directly off another blog or news site.
e.g. this one is lifted word for word directly from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2102062,00.asp
A link would have been nicer.
Honestly i am 50/50
I agree that the main purpose i come here is the movies but on the other hand many of the tech news do not appear on my tech.
I been searching for this on them and nada!
But perhaps there could be 2 sections where people could choose since i can understand that if you are here for movies and articles like this take the whole page then you start wondering where is this going…
ps. Do you guys find this article on any other site? Maybee i need to have better tech site in my favorite
I use theinquirer, Engadget, tomshardware mostly.