It’s been almost three years since DirecTV announced its intentions to release a digital tuner that would allow Windows Media Center PCs to receive, record, and play back high-definition satellite programming.
Since then, the DirecTV tuner has become almost as mythical as Bigfoot or Nessie.
So imagine my surprise when I found a signed device driver for the DirecTV HDPC-20 in the pre-beta release of Windows 7 given to attendees at PDC.
Ed Bott (@ wordpress.com) 
I think you meant to link to post 597 not 575?
Fixed, thanks.
Hmmm….. a Windows 7 beta in December and possible tuner unveiled in January with CES is my guess.