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Actually I can confirm that Comcast Dublin, California  (Digital), at least in my system… worked flawlessly without having to unpair/re-pair. 
Scenario:
* I had 2 mcards in 2 external ATI DCTs on my vista media center.
* My cable package is HD with no premium channels, Comcast here does not use SDV
Today got the ceton 4 tuner delivered.
1. I turned off my old vista machine and hauled out my new Win 7 machine.
2. Previously I had already run the Digital CAble Advisor
3. I took out one of the mcards from one of the ATI DCTs
4. I installed the infinitv into the win7 machine and booted, installed drivers and also had to do a quirky thing with the Win Media Center Receiver and Scheduling services (had to switch the service startup to use local account instead of Network account… not sure why but they weren’t starting up)
5. I ran through the Win 7 TV setup process,  and just skipped the part about calling the cable provider
6. Tested live tv and recording 4 channels at once and it worked.  I have no premium channels so could not tell if any channels are blocked.

In the past I had accidentally swapped mcards between the ATI DCTs so I was pretty sure it would work…

[sgtpokey]

Actually I can confirm that Comcast Dublin, California  (Digital), at least in my system… worked flawlessly without having to unpair/re-pair. 
Scenario:
* I had 2 mcards in 2 external ATI DCTs on my vista media center.
* My cable package is HD with no premium channels, Comcast here does not use SDV
Today got the ceton 4 tuner delivered.
1. I turned off my old vista machine and hauled out my new Win 7 machine.
2. Previously I had already run the Digital CAble Advisor
3. I took out one of the mcards from one of the ATI DCTs
4. I installed the infinitv into the win7 machine and booted, installed drivers and also had to do a quirky thing with the Win Media Center Receiver and Scheduling services (had to switch the service startup to use local account instead of Network account… not sure why but they weren’t starting up)
5. I ran through the Win 7 TV setup process,  and just skipped the part about calling the cable provider
6. Tested live tv and recording 4 channels at once and it worked.  I have no premium channels so could not tell if any channels are blocked.

In the past I had accidentally swapped mcards between the ATI DCTs so I was pretty sure it would work…

[sgtpokey]

regarding pairing,

Actually this was going to be a question but then realized that you are not “all-knowing” 🙂

So I’ll turn it into a statement and intention:
I’m not sure if all cable providers pair the cablecard to a Host ID.  There were some early posts in the the monster Ceton thread on TGB regarding this subject if I recall correctly (I believe erkotz himself did not need to re-pair his existing cablecard with the pre-production ceton).  When I get my ceton delivered (this friday acording to FedEx), I’m going to try and pop in my existing cablecard without unpairing / pairing and see if it just works.  If it does, great!  If not then I’ll do the dance with the local comcast to get it set up…

I’ll report about it for any others using Comcast in Dublin, CA

[sgtpokey]

regarding pairing,

Actually this was going to be a question but then realized that you are not “all-knowing” 🙂

So I’ll turn it into a statement and intention:
I’m not sure if all cable providers pair the cablecard to a Host ID.  There were some early posts in the the monster Ceton thread on TGB regarding this subject if I recall correctly (I believe erkotz himself did not need to re-pair his existing cablecard with the pre-production ceton).  When I get my ceton delivered (this friday acording to FedEx), I’m going to try and pop in my existing cablecard without unpairing / pairing and see if it just works.  If it does, great!  If not then I’ll do the dance with the local comcast to get it set up…

I’ll report about it for any others using Comcast in Dublin, CA

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