I thought he was following up to my response to "extending" Live TV (one of those posts you didn't read ).barnabas1969 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean here, Foxwood. Nothing prevents you from pulling the Ceton tuner out of one PC and installing it in a different one. The CableCARD is not tied to the PC... it's tied to the tuner. However, if the OP has recorded some copy-protected shows on his i7 PC, he will not be able to transfer those recordings to his new i5 PC.
You're right though, taking the hardware from one machine to another machine shouldn't cause any problems.