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MSTV.JPGIt's official: Microsoft now supports four CableCard tuners in Windows Vista.

That's the word from both Niveus Media chief executive Tim Cutting as well as Scott Evans, group manager at Microsoft's eHome division, who revealed the extra details after a press conference at the CEDIA show here in Denver on Thursday.



Previously, Vista only supported two CableCard tuners, which meant that users could record one channel while watching another. But Niveus has its eye on the antisocial family of the new millennium, where Mom's watching Grey's Anatomy in the living room, Dad's in the den watching ESPN, and little Kristin is freebasing on Blue's Clues in her room, while some family-friendly movie (with buckets of blood, but no breasts) is being archived for the weekend.

The interesting thing is exactly how this is going to be rolled out. Evans was rather vague when I asked him if this was going to be a Vista update. No, he replied, it will be provided to Microsoft's custom-installer partners. Part of a value-added program for the channel?

That's, of course, if anyone wants CableCards to begin with.

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