Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface

Pros: Worked Good when they finally sent me a new card.

Cons: quit working after about an hour. system can no longer find it.

Other Thoughts: just a note, does not work with Nvidia chipset boards, this after I purchased and would not install, then 3 weeks of tech support, Ceton blaming Comcast, and vice versa, finally received an RMA, to late for Newegg to give me my money back, then I get the new card to work for an hour.

Pros: Does everything it says, i plan to buy another.

Cons: none that i have found

Other Thoughts: I can't say enough good things about Ceton, i think the help desk system is great. They have some work to do with there Echo device but that's beside the point.

Pros: Provides 4 tuners for HD recording or SD depending on channel. The card is pretty darn easy to setup in mythbuntu. Mythtv has a section pertaining to the ceton card and should be read. Does require you update your mythtv to .26

Cons: Double check the fit of the card in the pcie slot. You might have to bend the bracket a bit to have it sit correctly. Not a big deal though. Does not work with satellite broadcasts (i.e. DirecTV).

Other Thoughts: There should be no need to update the firmware. Works out of the box with the drivers from the manufactures website. Its really a nice card and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to run a DVR. The most problem I thought I would encounter was with comcast. However, Things went very good and had to call back only once to resend a signal to the card. If you get a "Partial Lock" when trying to view live tv thru mythtv just call comcast and have them reset the card. I get all channels basically with comcast. If the cablecard lets you watch them then you can record them too. Only exception is if they flagged the show which I understand happens on the premium channels (HBO, ect). I have no idea why the HDPVR from Haupaunge (sp?) seemed to get much more notice than this card. This card is a winner in my book!

Pros: Great digital tuner

Cons: not plug and play takes a bit of tweaking

Other Thoughts: This might not be for an entry level user, but if your computer savvy you can make this work. It could take a bit of tweaking and research

Pros: Easy install, easy to follow instructions.

Cons: No cons!

Other Thoughts: As others have said, the only hangup is the cable company. I work for Comcast and it still took a bit of time to get going. My card was set up properly in the billing system (I verified), but it still required more than one pairing hit to authorize all the channels. I would recommend to call the cable card dept using the phone number provided with the ceton instructions. Regular tech support reps like myself receive very few calls about cable cards over the course of a year. Not everyone is a dummy about them, but a lot of people are. Call the cable card dept.

Pros: 1. Picture quality is better than cable boxes because the picture is not being compressed.

2. Can record 4 HD feeds at the same time. Will pay for itself after one year vs paying DVR fees @$15 per month.

3. Not to hard to setup if using all 4 tuners on one PC, have not try the network setup to spit the tuner.

Cons: 1. Switched from 2 two ATI 650 PCIe tuners for over the air TV, this product would be great it worked if you could for over the TV.

2. Tuners with freeze with a video image on the TV & the tuners will not be detected in Windows Media Player. This requires a computer reboot for the tuners to comeback and being function

3. It's product is not ready for 24 hours / day operation non-stop usage!

Other Thoughts: After 3 months of usage, some problems here and there, buy the extra 3 year warranty from newegg for insurance and not throwing money away during the long term investment!

System Config:

Shuttle SH67H3
Intel Core i7 2600K
Kingston 4 x 4Gb of DDR3 DIMM's
Intel G2 80Gb SSD w/ Windows 7 Boot OS for booting
Western Digital Black 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s for 110 hours of HD recording
LG Bluray Drive

Pros: Excellent product. Once it's up and running, the picture quality and channel response time is great. I would (and have) recommend this product to a friend.

Instructions are very good. The bundled list of cable company CableCard support lines was a huge time saver. Ceton obviously knows that your cable company will be the weakest link.

Cons: Comcast is a pain. Initial setup wasn't as painful as I expected, thanks to Ceton's bundled listing of support numbers. However, Comcast managed to register my card improperly, which generated service and billing headaches.

Pros: Great Card. Love using it on WMC. as well as connecting it to my xbox 360. The card has had a few hiccups (mostly related to the cable card) but it resolves its issues by going back or changing the channel.

Cons: I have had this card in 3 different machines and have had very little issues with setup and configuration. Any issues I had I was able to find the solution on Cetons website.

Other Thoughts: I found it runs best when using your main computer as the server when having media extenders. I attempted to have it run as a server. while using wmc. its best to use the media extenders in locations that aren't primary users.
Also I installed MCE buddy to convert my tv recordings. Even with the commercial skip off it reduces the file size significantly.

Pros: Works great, love this thing. Works great with media center, and we can now record multiple channels at once!

Cons: None

Pros: Easy installation.
Works perfectly.
Extremely thorough diagnostics.
Windows 8 beta drivers are rock-steady, and have zero issues.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I'd give the Ceton InviniTV 4 10 stars if they were available. The quick-start guide was perfectly written. Total installation and configuration time was approximately 10 minutes. Frontier Communications (FIOS in Oregon) was able to pair and activate my card in less than five minutes over the phone.

This works flawlessly in Windows 8 Pro Media Center, even with the beta drivers from Ceton's web site.

I can't speak highly enough about this tuner card.