They’ve been a long time coming, but we finally have a company getting ready to release some Media Center PCs that are CableCARD-ready. Up until now there hasn’t been an easy way to get HD television into a PC if you were getting the signal from a cable company. They all make you use their own decoder (crap-tastic) boxes.

Luckily for all of us the gov’t forced the cable companies to offer an alternative to the boxes, and the CableCARD was the solution. It’s the way TiVo can offer an HD box (I had to get 2 cableCARDs from my cable provider for it to work). And now you’ll be able to do the same with this PC, thanks to its inclusion of AMD’s TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner.

“The TV Wonder DCT is the first of its kind, giving PCs the ability to tune NTSC, ATSC over-the-air, QAM encrypted ATSC and CableCARD support.”

[DailyTech]