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Re: Stupid TiVo said by swintec:Paying customers of who? Oh yea, TiVo. TiVo's problem. Also, have you seen the numbers on CableCard usage? A measely 100,000 or so. Hardly a blip on the radar, and surely not even remotely close enough to stop the roll out of new and exciting technology. That is because the cable companies try to get people not to use them. Cablecards make less money than converter boxes.
said by swintec:Cable Labs "basically" works for the cable companies? I believe they are an independent entity. From Cablelabs own site:
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CableLabs' members are exclusively cable system operators. They do not include competitive network platforms such as direct broadcast satellite (DBS), telephone companies delivering video services, electrical utilities delivering broadband services, multi-channel multipoint distribution systems (MMDS) or the like. Nor do they include manufacturers or content providers (such as cable programmers, broadcasters or movie studios). Our members are located in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia.
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I stand corrected on the CableLabs statement. The way I read things in the past was that cable companies settled on the CableLabs standards...not that they WERE the CableCard standards. 
Cable companies try to get people not to use them? Id say the cable card themselves get people not to use them. Also, there is very "few" cable card ready TV sets out there. Most people arent foolish enough to shell out the kind of money on he newer TiVos either. If TV manufacturers output a lot more cable card ready sets, you can bet usage would increase.
Also, why should the cable companies put this new technology in the backseat because of TiVO and cable card devices? Arent they a legit business, out to make money, keep the MAJORITY of customers content with there service offering? Are you mistaking a cable company with UNICEF possibly? 
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| said by swintec:Cable companies try to get people not to use them? Id say the cable card themselves get people not to use them. Also, there is very "few" cable card ready TV sets out there. Most people arent foolish enough to shell out the kind of money on he newer TiVos either. If TV manufacturers output a lot more cable card ready sets, you can bet usage would increase. Actually, many of the larger sets use Cablecards. Both my 62" DLP and 37" LCD have Cablecards slots.
said by swintec:Also, why should the cable companies put this new technology in the backseat because of TiVO and cable card devices? Arent they a legit business, out to make money, keep the MAJORITY of customers content with there service offering? Are you mistaking a cable company with UNICEF possibly? Because there is a law mandating them:
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The portion of the 1996 Telecom law which resulted in the creation of CableCARDs is known as Section 629, instructing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to:
"...assure the commercial availability to consumers of multichannel video programming and other services offered over multichannel video programming systems, of converter boxes, interactive communications equipment, and other equipment used by consumers to access multichannel video programming and other services offered over multichannel video programming systems, from manufacturers, retailers, and other vendors not affiliated with any multichannel video programming distributor."
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