SiliconDust To Announce CableCard Product?

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by mr_lore

....again later in the show about a method for SageTV that would use Windows 7 media center as the recording engine and then pass that to SageTV...

That sounds like babgvant's SageMC tuner "plugin".

[SHS]

No not like DVB Link app I think it be more like Andy SageMCTuner

[Qusix]

Is cablecard still not able to handle switched video or has that been fixed?

[Clift]

Originally Posted by Qusix

Is cablecard still not able to handle switched video or has that been fixed?

Fixed via tuning adapters

[bravesirrobbin]

I spoke with Jason of SiliconDust (article HERE) and he did say they were going to have a meeting with SageTV on Saturday, but not specifically about their new product.

CocoonTech tried getting hold of SageTV while at CES, but was unsuccessful. They were not shown in any of the exhibitor listings. I would have really liked to have spoken with them while they were here at the show. Maybe next year we can set something up?

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by bravesirrobbin

CocoonTech tried getting hold of SageTV while at CES, but was unsuccessful. They were not shown in any of the exhibitor listings. I would have really liked to have spoken with them while they were here at the show. Maybe next year we can set something up?

Sage didn't really have anything to say this year. Dave Zatz spoke with Sage, and was clearly hoping to get more out of them. Sage did confirm they're working on a new UI, but we guessed that already. This has been discussed in a different thread.

[Slack]

Any chance for Sage Support?

http://www.silicondust.com/press#HDH...pportatCES2010

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[tmiranda]

I've been reading up a little on this device and I have a basic question that I do not understand. Silicondust is saying that for anything other than in the clear QAM this device will only work with WMC7. What I do not understand is how the device knows for sure what it is talking to.

The HDHR is a networked tuner so what prevents an application talking to it from "fibbing" and telling it that it's Windows MC 7?

I'm not a network engineer so I'm sure there's a simple answer to this.

Thanks,

Tom

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

The HDHR is a networked tuner so what prevents an application talking to it from "fibbing" and telling it that it's Windows MC 7?

I'm not an expert at this either, but from what I understand with the OCUR cable card tuner there's some sort of cryptographic handshake between the tuner and the host operating system as part of the DRM scheme. Apparently everything sent between the Windows/Media Center and the OCUR tuner was over a cryptographically-protected tunnel using the DRM scheme.

So, presumably SiliconDust is still talking to CableLabs trying to figure out if the same thing has to be done with their device. That is, if the data (i.e. video) and command channels need to always be encrypted with DRM, or if only flagged video content must be protected with DRM. If only flagged content must be protected, then the device really ought to work with Sage on any OS. But, if SiliconDust has to use DRM tunnels between the device and the OS, then there's still some hope that Sage can work officially with the SiliconDust for copy-freely content, but you'd at least have to run Windows 7.

[cat6man]

from what i saw on the SD forum, they were planning a beta effort in April
(or at least that was their target) for the cablecard HDHR

april is here

[rochurch]

.....will feature three tuners in time for the holidays: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/11/h...me-for-the-ho/

Sure hope it will work with Sage. This will be great! Tops on my Christmas list!

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[Deacon Crusher]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/11/h...me-for-the-ho/

I so need this yesterday, plus this

http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/arc...l-release.aspx

Then I am so happy.

HD pvr for protected content (HBO etc.) and the loss of QAM isn't a big deal anymore.

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