What to do with Ceton Windows 7 setup
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:28 pm
Now that Windows 7 has less than a year of support left, what are people here planning to do with their Ceton WMC setups?
Currently I have a Windows 7 box with a Ceton 4 tuner card subscribed to a package that includes premium channels like HBO (even if it doesn't I'm pretty sure the basic channels round here are encrypted/copy once flag enabled). It's served me well in the years since I've built it and I'm honestly pissed that Microsoft has abandoned WMC - for all the lack of adoption it had I still think it's the best DVR system I've worked with (Myth/Kodi being the other ones I've played with).
So from what I've seen there are a few options:
- Rebuild (I'd rather start clean than upgrade, unless there's a compelling reason to not to) using Windows 8 (I'm assuming that one can still get a WMC pack license, is that true?)
- Rebuild using Windows 10 (this sounds like it could be dicey)
- Get an HDHomerun Prime and add the DVR subscription (does this work with HBO and other encrypted content?)
- ???
Currently I have a Windows 7 box with a Ceton 4 tuner card subscribed to a package that includes premium channels like HBO (even if it doesn't I'm pretty sure the basic channels round here are encrypted/copy once flag enabled). It's served me well in the years since I've built it and I'm honestly pissed that Microsoft has abandoned WMC - for all the lack of adoption it had I still think it's the best DVR system I've worked with (Myth/Kodi being the other ones I've played with).
So from what I've seen there are a few options:
- Rebuild (I'd rather start clean than upgrade, unless there's a compelling reason to not to) using Windows 8 (I'm assuming that one can still get a WMC pack license, is that true?)
- Rebuild using Windows 10 (this sounds like it could be dicey)
- Get an HDHomerun Prime and add the DVR subscription (does this work with HBO and other encrypted content?)
- ???