The Media Center DirecTV HDPC-20 caught in action

EngadgetHD managed to grab some photos of DirecTV tuners working on Media Center in Microsoft’s lab at Redmond. As Ben says just because it’s being tested in Microsoft’s lab does not mean it will end up in production but it’s nice to know its being tested

Microsoft invited us, with a few others, to tour the eHome team office and lab's and of all the great things we saw -- pictured in the gallery -- the one that got us the most excited was to see the rumored DirecTV HDPC-20 USB tuner in action. Our dreams were a little dashed though, as we were reminded on numerous occasions that although Microsoft tests lots of hardware, not everything makes it to market. So in other words, the presence of any hardware in the lab is no way an announcement of future products

More pictures and details on EngadgetHD’s post

Thanks for the tip Richard