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Re: Stupid TiVo 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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