Found this quote from Anandtech’s write up on Win 7 RC1 encouraging…
[quote]Although this is open to all services, Microsoft’s primary example here is DirecTV, which would require all of these additions. DirecTV has been developing the HDPC-20 tuner for PCs but held it back for unnamed reasons. All indications are that the HDPC-20 will finally be a go due to PBDA (and the addition of H.264 decoding support helps, too).[/quote]
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3557&p=4
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