Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe or USB - $179 @ Amazon

Shows up at $199 on the product page. According to the promotion details page, $20 will be taken off at checkout.

PCIe

USB

Can be a pain to setup, but in my opinion, worth the hassel to save in cable box / DVR fees over the long run.

I've been looking at these since they were $399 but have never owned a tuner and don't know much about them. How does this compare to the HDHomeRun Prime and the Hauppauge/AverMedia cards aside from number of tuners?

Good deal, I would get one to simplify the two ati tuners I am using but the price isn't worth it for me because I would only be saving like $1 in cable card costs so it would take along time to actually pay off. Good deal though if you don't have one.

imyourzero said:

I've been looking at these since they were $399 but have never owned a tuner and don't know much about them. How does this compare to the HDHomeRun Prime and the Hauppauge/AverMedia cards aside from number of tuners?

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The HD Homerun Prime is a network tuner, so any extender can use one of the tuners. With the Ceton (PCIe at least), if you want to use a tuner on another PC, you have to basically dedicate a tuner to that PC. After it's been setup, you're down to 3 tuners available for use on the first PC, even if the 4th isn't in use on PC #2. Using something like an XB360 as an extender does not work the same way - the 4th tuner can be used. Not a problem for me, but could be depending on your use.

Based on various forums, Ceton support seems to go above and beyond for any customers with trouble. Haven't had first-hand experience with that. I'm also not sure how the monitoring software is for those other tuners, as I haven't owned one, but the Ceton monitoring software will tell you pretty much everything you could need/want to know.

My father pre-ordered one of these and they worked with him a lot to get the FIOS firmware working correctly. Good support and nice card.

I have two in an 8 tuner dvr octopus monster set up - we basically grab any and everything we want now (it was two dvrs i built but the second never got used). A few things people should know if you have time warner or comcast you will need a SDV box - (in most blaces) to support switch digital video. Ours is a cisco box that supports 4 tuners per box so I have two to get 8. Works great with windows media center 7 -

groebuck said:

I have two in an 8 tuner dvr octopus monster set up - we basically grab any and everything we want now (it was two dvrs i built but the second never got used). A few things people should know if you have time warner or comcast you will need a SDV box - (in most blaces) to support switch digital video. Ours is a cisco box that supports 4 tuners per box so I have two to get 8. Works great with windows media center 7 -

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So you can watch or record up to 8 programs simultaneously, whenever you like? That's awesome, you could give each member of the family two tuners each.

I personally make full use of something like this, but I appreciate the dedication and the [H]ness. I think I should get a dual tuner PCIe card. I've seen them floating around here on FS/T for good prices.

at this price this is a great deal and you would be surprised how handy an extra tuner is esp. If you have a gf that follows a million shows

I have one of these paired with an e350 box, and it works amazingly well. I had some problems with my first card (tuner not available) and customer support was very nice to work with, they sent me a new card after I did some troubleshooting with them and were always very prompt to respond.

It works especially well with FIOS, since almost none of the channels have DRM.

kemist1117 said:

at this price this is a great deal and you would be surprised how handy an extra tuner is esp. If you have a gf that follows a million shows

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DING DING DING - hence the 8 tuners since everything she likes is on sunday night...

You can share out your recorded tv dir on your home network and any win box can watch the recorded shows as long as there is no copy flag. (ie bravo,tlc,mtv..like most of the cable channles do a the copy protection flag so you can only watch it on the device that recorded - you can strip that out with a program dvrtoolbox I thiink but i don't care that much to do it since it is miostly her stuff...)