Re: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Review
Until I read the review I had never been concerned about sharing the tuners with other PCs throughout the house. I’m on FIOS and I have STBs connected to my other TVs as well as a couple of S3 Tivos. I’m starting to think that I may want to get rid one or more STBs and install media extenders instead. I like the idea of saving money by replacing my Tivos with the InfiniTV 4, but the thought of saving money by dumping the additional STB rentals could be icing on the cake.
The only thing that concerns me is that I record a lot of prime time TV shows and it may be difficult to share tuners with the extenders if they’re all in use for recording purposes. OTOH, I also have four ATSC tuners to record my network OTA shows in HD and I rarely record more than two cable programs simultaneously so it may be a non-issue. It looks like I’ll be shopping for some media extenders.
Am I correct in assuming that the X-Box 360 is currently the only Windows Media Center extender still being marketed? Is there a specific model that is better suited as a media extender or are they all equal in this application? What are some of the makes and models of extenders that have been discontinued? I seem to recall that Linksys made one a while back. Is it safe to assume that any Windows Media Center extender will work with Windows 7 Media Center?