HTPC firm Ceton turned heads earlier this year with the release of the first consumer-targeted, network-based, 6-tuner CableCARD device, the InfiniTV 6 ETH. In our review, we noted that the InfiniTV 6 ETH offered great flexibility, allowing whole households to simultaneously watch live and recorded television without reasonable fear of running into tuner limits. Now the company is out with an update to its PCI Express-based line, the InfiniTV 6 PCIe. This new model provides users with the same 6-tuner
Review: Ceton Takes HTPCs To a New Level With the InfiniTV 6 ETH
Television tuner products for personal computers have come a long way over the past 15 years or so. What began as complicated add-on cards with temperamental single tuners evolved to plug-and-play USB products and finally to whole-house networked solutions. These products promise consumers the ability to watch and record cable (and sometimes over-the-air) television without the fees and restrictive user experiences of cable company-provided set-top boxes. Many companies inhabit the TV tuner market, but perhaps the most innovative is Ceton.