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Bellingham, WA | Doesn't matter anyway Dosen't matter anyway because SDV (Switch Digital Video) will soon make all these devices with QAM tuners cablecard or not obsolite. |
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| said by b10010011:Dosen't matter anyway because SDV (Switch Digital Video) will soon make all these devices with QAM tuners cablecard or not obsolite. Actually the TiVo devices would work fine with SDV if the OCAP requirement for 2-way communication via CableCard was dropped. |
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| said by WeKnSmith:said by b10010011:Dosen't matter anyway because SDV (Switch Digital Video) will soon make all these devices with QAM tuners cablecard or not obsolite. Actually the TiVo devices would work fine with SDV if the OCAP requirement for 2-way communication via CableCard was dropped. That doesn't make sense since the whole premise of SDV requires two-way. How could it not be required? |
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| What I meant to say it that TiVo and the other third party CE companies would be ready to support "CableCard 2.0" (2-way communication). The issue is that CableLabs is trying to force the CE companies to support the OCAP software requirement.
I think in the end the FCC will make CableLabs back off of the attempt to force OCAP on everyone. |
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| Still not sure I follow. CableLabs is not trying to force any CE companies to support OCAP? They only have to support OCAP if they want to have the OCAP certified label. They don't need OCAP to support SDV, they need to support an SDV client app and two-way connectivity. Nothing OCAP specific. They just aren't going to do that because there are several different SDV implementations that it wouldn't make sense to try to support each one. It's easier and more cost effective to support a standards based client that will work everywhere. |
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