16
01
2007

Cablecard MCEs coming 2nd half of 2007?

Posted by pnear
XP Media Center Edition

As I was reading an article on CNet this morning about Windows Home Server, the following passage caught my eye:

Microsoft has been touting plans for CableCard support for a long time. In November 2005, the company said it had signed a deal with the cable industry that would pave the way for Media Center PCs with built-in CableCards to arrive by the 2006 holiday sales season. That didn’t happen. At CES last week, Microsoft said it sees such PCs coming out in the second half of this year.

Really now?  That’s the first time I had heard that, I was expecting them to be out at about the same time as the Vista consumer launch at the end of January.  That’s unfortunate to hear, and sounds to me like a sliding date too (ie Christmas 2007 is technically in the 2nd half of 2007 and that’s probably the real drop-dead date).

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