DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey | Cablecard 2 and provider
Whoever fully supports Cablecard 2 will be my provider. I want to just pop the card in and go. Which according to some cable providers is typical. |
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sandwidth
join:2004-10-22
Ontario, CA
 ·Time Warner Cable
| And even *if* FTTH became premier........all cable will have to do is what Verizon did.........
Extend their FTTX to FTTH. It'll cost tons of money, just like it did Verizon and we'll still have 2 boxes sittin' out in the yard or up on the pole...........but..........no matter what............we'll all pay for it.
Cable is certainly not incapable! |
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MacLeech
The one and only
Premium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
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said by DaveNJ  :Whoever fully supports Cablecard 2 will be my provider. I want to just pop the card in and go. Which according to some cable providers is typical. Comcast, TWC, and the rest of the big name cable companies fully support Cablecard 2... its box makers that don't.... other than the new Moto, PACE, and SA boxes. Some of the others have partial support (multi-stream) like Tivo, but aren't putting in the transmitters and other things needed for 2-way so you could order PPV, On
Demand, or SDV.
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Don't mind me, I'm just trying to help...
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| Not sure about "cable Card 2" or if it will ever even go anywhere anyway. I WILL hold my breath on Down-loadable security which is where things need to go.
What NEEDS to happen is the whole cable card thing needs to go just like the current FCC. There will continue to be confusion and lack of consumer products when the FCC is laying the ground for cable to follow the needs of box makers instead of having cable set a standard and people follow it.
Further, the FCC, in a single requirement, just made wireline TV service advancements come to a crawl. But, Tivo is happy, I'm sure!
CableCard boxes, when deployed, and people start buying them, cable is going to want to upgrade their plants.. they are already maxing out as it is.. they're going to want to deploy SVD, or IP based services. Upgrade the plant and see how many customer owned converters become door stops over night!
People will cry foul and complain "how can they do this to us!! We paid $150 for these three boxes and can't use them any more" and the FCC will cower to them. Cable will continue to hit walls.
It was a very simple change that needed to happen all along. SIMPLY ALLOW CONSUMERS TO BUY COMPATIBLE BOXES! It works with DOCSIS, why not Video? Sure, there are two standards now.. the S/A and the Moto.. so why not allow box makers to build boxes to meet those specs and sell them on the market? That would have been the best option. However, while the smarter way to put box ownership in the hands of the consumer, it still doesn't address the needs of the operator to upgrade their plants.
It's always been done somewhat easy as the cable company would simply update the plant and swap the consumer box at no cost to the consumer.
All this did was make a mess.
Cable Card 1 or 2 has never been the answer.
I see things being a HUGE mess for at least the next 10 to 15 years for cable thanks to the FCC. My ultimate prediction is cable will push quick to a beefier U-Verse style system quickly or a push to bring fiber closer or to the home.
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