Julie Jacobson is reports that DirecTV may have suspended development of the HDPC-20 tuner. Julie picked up a report on Gearlog saying that after missing out on going in to TV Feature Pack DirecTV have decided to suspend the project.
DIRECTV has suspended the development of the HDPC-20 tuner project that was designed to integrate DIRECTV service into Windows Media Center after assessing the impact of missing the August 2008 release of Windows Media Center update and considering timing of the next release.
More details on Julie’s blog, Ed Bott also has the details in an email from DirecTV
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I don’t know what to say other than,”NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/10/directv.cancels.hdpc.20/
Who cares… that simply means now you can get the $50 per month fee for their content directly from the content providers via the internet. What people are missing here is that these “developements” have nothing to do with the lack of uptake on the PC and have more to do with “who gives a hoot about the networks when we can get content directly from the internet”