wthPremium
join:2002-02-20
Iowa City,IA Reviews:
 ·Mediacom
| Sooner or later cable will need a box Most cable companys will convert to digital in the next couple of years. They can get 2+ HD channels into the space one analog channel takes. They don't need to convert on or B4 2/19/09, but most of them will sooner or later. Then Cable will be like D* & E*, as you will need some kind of box for every tv. |
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 ·Great Works Inte..
| That's an annoying idea. In the 1980s we had cable boxes. Then as tuners in the TVs improved, during 1990s we generally shed them. Now in the "digital" era we're back to boxes and cable companies are doing all they can to discourage something convenient like the CableCARD. |
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You needed a cable box in the 80's because those cheap 70's-80’s TVs were not Cable-Ready. Manufacturers got with the times and released “Cable Ready” TVs and you shed the cable box.
Now you need a cable box because your cheap 90’s-00’s TV is not Digital Ready. Yet all TVs made after 2007 pretty much feature a digital QAM tuner…. so you can again shed the cable box.
You basically just nullified your own gripe. |
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| You can probably count the number of TVs made after 2007 that support cable cards with one hand. |
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| said by AnonDude86 :
You can probably count the number of TVs made after 2007 that support cable cards with one hand.
Our 2005 Philips plasma from Costco supports CableCard.... |
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| reply to Digital OTA
QAM tuners in TVs are great until they decide to encrypt the content. |
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 meister_sdPremium
join:2006-01-29
La Mesa, CA
kudos:7 | reply to Digital OTA
said by Digital OTA :
You basically just nullified your own gripe.
Try getting Cox to get it working.... A friend of mine has reps out for over a week trying to figure it out. He finally had to get the box anyway. |
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