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Casey @ Dec 31st 2008 1:05PM

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Check out the Niveus Media Pro Series rackmount servers combined with the Niveus Digital Cable Receiver. You pay a premium for a Niveus solution but the proprietary features like Movie Library, Niveus Companion as well as world class support more than make up for it.

My own experience with CableCard was good and bad. It was awesome from a hardware and software perspective, little to no problems with comcast or pairing. My disappointment came fro mthe picture quality from my cable provider. At the time I was a DirecTV subscriber and had Comcast HD cable simultaneously to test. I found the picture quality on Bay Area Comcast to be subpar. On picture quality, your mileage may vary.

Overall I LOVE the TV experience in Vista Media Center and pray for a DirecTV solution in the future, or severe improvement in picture quality from Comcast.

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Nate @ Dec 31st 2008 1:12PM

I have an HP d5000t with CableCARD tuner and there are a lot of issues that the Dell 420 crowd and myself have had with the cheaper solutions. HP and Dell don't know how to support these systems. Do not discount the value of good support for these things. VMC is very buggy when it comes to DRM and CableCARD.

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