Re: Review: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad CableCARD Tuner – Part I
I’ve been looking over the installation instructions from the Ceton site and discovered a few things I found interesting as well as a bit confusing.
The instructions have you installing the Ceton card and hooking everything up and inserting the cablecard and then running the Digital Cable Advisor. It says that the Extras Gallery may not be shown and that it gets downloaded when you run the installer software. I’m running Win 7 Pro and the Extras Gallery with the Digital Cable Advisor icon is present. I decided to go ahead and run it since it’s just checking to make sure your system meets the minimum requirements to handle a cablecard tuner. It seems a bit silly to install the hardware first and then run the advisor. If your system doesn’t meet the minimum requirements you may have to uninstall everything to get it up to speed. I’m guessing that not all versions of Win 7 Media Center include the Extras Gallery.
One thing I found interesting is that it requires 4GB of RAM as a minimum requirement. I do have 4GB of RAM so my system passed. The weird thing is that I’m running the 32-bit version of Win 7 Pro, which only allows 3GB of RAM to be used from what I understand. It seems to me that in order to have 4GB of RAM available that the 64-bit version of Win 7 would also be a requirement.
I just scanned over the installation instructions again and I just realized that the product key for the tuner required during the configuration process is apparently generated when running the Digital Cable Advisor. This is probably why they have you install the tuner card and cablecard prior to running it, I think it took less than five minutes to run through it so I’ll just rerun it after I get my Ceton card.