 Morac
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Riverside, NJ
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Re: Couldn't find one said by apollo80:Late this year or early next year, if I remember correctly, the two way format of the cablecard will be made available built into tv's. The cards out there now are 2 way compatible. The cards themselves have no transmit/receive functionality. They just provide channel data and services to the host device. The host devices needs to have a transmitter in it to be 2 way capable.
The CableCARD 2.0 standard is someone of a misnomer because all it means is that in order for a host device to be certified, it has to be 2-way capable and support all three transmission "languages". It also includes multistream cards which allow one card to tune multiple channels. See the CableCard primer (see the bottom about 2-way communication).
Any company could make a 2-way capable device today if they want. It would be much more expensive though since there are 3 different transmission standards, depending on which cable system you are in, and the device would have to support all 3 in order to work everywhere.
The whole thing is probably moot though since the cable companies seem hell bent to CableCards die and go with a different incompatible system such as DCAS.
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