- Joined
- Mar 6, 2004
- Location
- Rockingham, NC
Just wanted to give a little short review of this little gem. I finally got tired of Time Warners absolute junk DVR's with buggy and slow GUI's that constantly freeze and take forever in a day to start up. $40+ a month for four tuners also grew tiresome.
So I started looking into replacement options. I had remembered the Ceton when it came out but the price was high. While browsing newegg I saw it dropped to $230, I could resist.
I got a system put together and got a cable card ordered from Time Warner($2.50 a month, yeah a big difference) The installation wasn't bad, it took a couple phone calls and about an hour to get it working. It's been gravy since. It just plain works. Four HD channels record perfectly with a G530 and a WD green HD. The Ceton software is absolutely wonderful with very very nice diagnostic software. I really couldn't be any more happy with it. I do get an error every now and again but much less so than with the DVR's. The WMC GUI is also very niced, I am quite impressed with Redmonds effort here. I've got ~$700 in the whole set-up and that's with a nice home theater style case and a high dollar motherboard(comparatively speaking) I already had an Xbox 360 for remote viewing in place of the second DVR.
The only real complaint I have it the adapter for the coax cable, it's prone to breakage. It has a little adapter that goes into the card instead of the coax going in directly. But Ceton has been very good and every instance I have seen they have either repaired or replaced the cards for those that broke them.
This is for the PCIe version, don't get the USB version. It's absolute junk that locks up and disconnects constantly.
The build:
Silverstone ML03 Case
ASRock H67M-GE/HT (B3)
Intel G530
Windows 7 Home Premium
SeaSonic SS-350ET
Scythe SCSK-1100
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card
Mushkin 4GB 1333
Azend Mediagate Remote
Lenovo Multimedia Remote(backordered, still waiting)
Used a 2TB WD Green I had laying around from a dead WHS.
So I started looking into replacement options. I had remembered the Ceton when it came out but the price was high. While browsing newegg I saw it dropped to $230, I could resist.
I got a system put together and got a cable card ordered from Time Warner($2.50 a month, yeah a big difference) The installation wasn't bad, it took a couple phone calls and about an hour to get it working. It's been gravy since. It just plain works. Four HD channels record perfectly with a G530 and a WD green HD. The Ceton software is absolutely wonderful with very very nice diagnostic software. I really couldn't be any more happy with it. I do get an error every now and again but much less so than with the DVR's. The WMC GUI is also very niced, I am quite impressed with Redmonds effort here. I've got ~$700 in the whole set-up and that's with a nice home theater style case and a high dollar motherboard(comparatively speaking) I already had an Xbox 360 for remote viewing in place of the second DVR.
The only real complaint I have it the adapter for the coax cable, it's prone to breakage. It has a little adapter that goes into the card instead of the coax going in directly. But Ceton has been very good and every instance I have seen they have either repaired or replaced the cards for those that broke them.
This is for the PCIe version, don't get the USB version. It's absolute junk that locks up and disconnects constantly.
The build:
Silverstone ML03 Case
ASRock H67M-GE/HT (B3)
Intel G530
Windows 7 Home Premium
SeaSonic SS-350ET
Scythe SCSK-1100
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card
Mushkin 4GB 1333
Azend Mediagate Remote
Lenovo Multimedia Remote(backordered, still waiting)
Used a 2TB WD Green I had laying around from a dead WHS.