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This from Jerry Pournelle's blog, anyone have any details on the HP product?
" Just back from the Shrine Auditorium where Bill Gates launched Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and many companies chief among them HP showed their set top box replacements for Tivo. Bottom line: it's cool, you can now have two tuner inputs meaning that you can take the input from two digital decoders on your cable TV and input both of them: meaning that you can record one program and watch another even if you are on digital cable.
You can also distribute what you are watching wirelessly through the house, so for instance, I can take the digital decoder from another room and put that with the one in my TV room and be able to do all this stuff from either location by putting an extender in the room where I removed the direct input. That's cool, and I will probably be doing something with this. The current HP box will handle two input tuners, but it doesn't do Hi Definition; if you want Hi Def you will have to wait until next year sometime.
This is clearly the HP consumer product push, and it did work well not only in the demo but out on the show floor."
" Just back from the Shrine Auditorium where Bill Gates launched Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and many companies chief among them HP showed their set top box replacements for Tivo. Bottom line: it's cool, you can now have two tuner inputs meaning that you can take the input from two digital decoders on your cable TV and input both of them: meaning that you can record one program and watch another even if you are on digital cable.
You can also distribute what you are watching wirelessly through the house, so for instance, I can take the digital decoder from another room and put that with the one in my TV room and be able to do all this stuff from either location by putting an extender in the room where I removed the direct input. That's cool, and I will probably be doing something with this. The current HP box will handle two input tuners, but it doesn't do Hi Definition; if you want Hi Def you will have to wait until next year sometime.
This is clearly the HP consumer product push, and it did work well not only in the demo but out on the show floor."
