Gizmodo: Windows Media Center history

[kevm14]

http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-built-a-ca ... 1709322190

Headline: Microsoft Built a Cable Box Killer. Then They Killed It.

Looks like a good read. I'd imagine the article focuses on what happened between "building the cable box killer" and "killing it."

[kevm14]

Looks like the short answer is: because CableCARD. And if you consider that for a bit, it makes some sense. If CableCARD was too much of a pain in the ass for normal to deal with, then the rest of the folks running Media Center as a DVR must be using over the air (or perhaps clear QAM). Most people in the US still have cable, so Media Center ATSC users would be some small percentage of that small percentage (I am in that small percentage).