Anyone know why Ceton tuners are not available anywhere?

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Neither amazon, nor newegg nor their site has these for sale or any information why they aren't available anywhere.

My ceton Infinitv 4 PCIE has been screwing up a lot lately(disappearing, freezing etc) and I was considering getting the Ceton ETH 6 and surprise surprise can't buy it anymore.

I am wondering whats going on.
 
They're still in business?

My 4-tuner is in a box somewhere. Turned into a POS after a while too.
 
I didnt know they werent in business.

Edit: Found their facebook page. Based on some of the posts it looks like they may be done. But nothing definitive. I posted a visitor message. Lets see.

I was going to get a HDHR anyway, because its cheaper.
 
I'd say they've been done for a while - they were being sued by Gibson over a year ago; not sure what came out of that.
 
Woh, youre right. Back in 2014 Gibson sued Ceton for 12 million alleging Ceton is in breach of contract to develop some kind of wireless media device. From the brief reading I did, it seems to me like someone(ceton) figured out someone(gibson) was onto something good and tried to change the terms of the agreement.
 
Ceton discontinued the Echo, which is the basis of my home setup. At this point, I would stay away from them
 
The Lurker said:
Neither amazon, nor newegg nor their site has these for sale or any information why they aren't available anywhere.

My ceton Infinitv 4 PCIE has been screwing up a lot lately(disappearing, freezing etc) and I was considering getting the Ceton ETH 6 and surprise surprise can't buy it anymore.

I am wondering whats going on.
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I know this thread is a few weeks old at this point... but don't buy a Ceton ETH under any circumstances. It is a piece of garbage (I still own one), it crashes every few days and will require all your HTPCs to reboot in order to remain paired with WMC. The HDHR Prime is MUCH more stable.
 
nite0 said:
I know this thread is a few weeks old at this point... but don't buy a Ceton ETH under any circumstances. It is a piece of garbage (I still own one), it crashes every few days and will require all your HTPCs to reboot in order to remain paired with WMC. The HDHR Prime is MUCH more stable.
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Do you have the proper ports opened up in your routers firewall for it to do WMDRM validation? I had the same exactly problem you described with the internal card and it was remedied after the ports were opened.Except in my case it would need a reboot every 48 hours.

Otherwise, wife and I decided to cut the cord entirely. Its been 2 weeks and we dont miss it at all. The few shows we do watch, we have other ways of obtaining.
 
Both my 4 channel and 6 channel cards ran like a champ when I had them. There weak point was the crappy mini connector to connect the coax to. But at this point the company is toast so its HDHomerun or nothing at this point.
 
Personally I would say don't bother ceton. I've only had bad experiences with the Infinitv4, and it seems people have issues with the Infinitv6 as well. I've been using two HDHomerun Primes and I've been very satisfied. Sucks to have to use 2 cablecards but it was worth the extra $3 for less headaches.
 
The Lurker said:
Do you have the proper ports opened up in your routers firewall for it to do WMDRM validation? I had the same exactly problem you described with the internal card and it was remedied after the ports were opened.Except in my case it would need a reboot every 48 hours.

Otherwise, wife and I decided to cut the cord entirely. Its been 2 weeks and we dont miss it at all. The few shows we do watch, we have other ways of obtaining.
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I'm not a networking guru by any means but why would ports need to be opened to communicate over the local network?
 
Vengance_01 said:
Both my 4 channel and 6 channel cards ran like a champ when I had them. There weak point was the crappy mini connector to connect the coax to. But at this point the company is toast so its HDHomerun or nothing at this point.
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My internal card was pretty solid so the issues do seem to be related to the ETH version. HDHR is the way to go though either way.
 
nite0 said:
I'm not a networking guru by any means but why would ports need to be opened to communicate over the local network?
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Not the local network. The tuner is trying to communicate outside of your network. If you dont have the following ports open, it will constantly screw up the pairing with media center.

Name UDP/TCP Port Range In/Out
RTP UDP 5001-5016 IN
SSDP UDP 1900 IN/OUT
RTSP TCP 554 OUT
UPnP TCP 2869 IN/OUT
WMDRM UDP 5757-5772 OUT

You need these open in the windows firewall and your gateway firewall. Ceton drivers normally set this up if you have uPNP enabled.
 
My understanding is that Ceton didn't go out of business, but they left the CableCard tuner industry (sold off the technology). No internet sources, sorry :). So I wouldn't expect to see InfiniTV products in stock or have any type of viable support. Move over to Silicon Dust - less tuners per unit, but way better product for consumers in my experience.
 
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