Their conclusion?

The LMS-500 is a well-endowed high-end Media Center that’s ideally suited for the person who wants dual-tuner DVR functionality for SDTV or over-the-air HDTV.

See the full review here.

Nominations are out, and EI is up for two CEA Mark of Excellence awards! Life|ware 2.0.3 has been nominated in the “Best Control System” category, and Life|media LMS 754 media server in the “Best Media Server” category.

Check out all the nominations at the CEA website.

Winners will be announced at an awards dinner on Friday, March 14, 2008 at the Rosen Centre Hotel, during the ninth annual Electronic House Expo (EHX) Spring 2008, in Orlando, Florida, March 11-15.

Life|ware shows quad recording Media Center with four CableCARDs

(EI) rolled out what it says is the first media center PC running four CableCARDs at the same time, and it proved to us that the whole thing actually works today at CEDIA 07. …It can record four HD channels while it’s streaming HD video to four Xbox 360 Elite boxes running the media center extender at the same time. And, it does all this without even breathing hard.

See the performance monitor shots in the gallery above: it’s hardly working, using just 57% of its processing power while feeding and recording all that video. It’s doing that using NVIDIA’s highest-end graphics card, the 8800GTS (that’s DVI-only, but easily converted to HDMI).

Hands-on with EI’s four-CableCARD 754 LifeMedia Server