Hands-on with EI's four-CableCARD 754 LifeMedia Server

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Paul @ Sep 7th 2007 9:31AM

Theoretically with a multi-stream CableCard (MCard) this could be done IF you had multiple tuners leveraging a single CableCard slot. However, since the only PC compatible tuners currently employ a 1 tuner to 1 slot design, this isn't feasible. Maybe one day, but CableLabs makes this prospect difficult.

I suppose they could rig some method of splitting the physical cable inside the box prior to attaching to the ATI tuners, but this would require the tuners be either 1) housed inside the box, which would obscure access to the CableCard slots or 2) custom designed to move the coax connectors inside the enclosure. Both are impractical and would expose the signal splitter to RF interference from all that electronic noise in the box, and would probably end up making the system even more "finicky". Better just allow the user to split the connection outside the box for now.

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