 banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
join:2001-08-18
Frisco, TX
 ·RoadRunner Cable
2 edits | Being a TiVo HD owner... ...I'm quite glad that Comcast is taking their sweet time testing and deploying SDV. My hope is that by the time they get to my area -- not likely to happen for a while, since we're one of the 10% of their markets serviced by Scientific Atlanta hardware -- the SDV dongle for 1-way devices will be available.
Otherwise I guess I'd have to downgrade to a cable company DVR. That thing was terrible.
Edit: I notice at the end of the article, the author remarks that he's waiting with bated breath for Time Warner to issue him the promised "new CableCARDs" that will work with SDV. I thought that there was no "two-way CableCARD" anywhere near completion -- and even if there was, it would not work in an existing TiVo unit without a hardware upgrade! Perhaps he is talking about the aforementioned SDV "dongle." |
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 MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
kudos:3
2 edits | said by banditws6:I thought that there was no "two-way CableCARD" anywhere near completion -- and even if there was, it would not work in an existing TiVo unit without a hardware upgrade! 2-way CableCARDs have been available since day 1 of release, it's the EQUIPMENT they're put in that enables or disables it's use. Tivo doesn't make any boxes that can use it.
Cable companies were mandated last year by the FCC to stop buying "integrated security" boxes and have since been buying and issuing "separable security" boxes aka boxes with CableCARDs in them.
Those boxes (the Moto DCH series and SciAtl/Cisco C series) have been using the 2-way features of CableCARDs just fine, including SDV. |
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 Fubar
join:2001-02-20
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:2 | reply to banditws6
said by banditws6:...I'm quite glad that Comcast is taking their sweet time testing and deploying SDV. My hope is that by the time they get to my area -- not likely to happen for a while, since we're one of the 10% of their markets serviced by Scientific Atlanta hardware -- the SDV dongle for 1-way devices will be available. Otherwise I guess I'd have to downgrade to a cable company DVR. That thing was terrible. Edit: I notice at the end of the article, the author remarks that he's waiting with bated breath for Time Warner to issue him the promised "new CableCARDs" that will work with SDV. I thought that there was no "two-way CableCARD" anywhere near completion -- and even if there was, it would not work in an existing TiVo unit without a hardware upgrade! Perhaps he is talking about the aforementioned SDV "dongle." All cable cards are 2-way capable.... But none of the hardware available is.... |
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banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
join:2001-08-18
Frisco, TX Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to MacLeech
said by MacLeech:2-way CableCARDs have been available since day 1 of release, it's the EQUIPMENT they're put in that enables or disables it's use. Tivo doesn't make any boxes that can use it. Cable companies were mandated last year by the FCC to stop buying "integrated security" boxes and have since been buying and issuing "separable security" boxes aka boxes with CableCARDs in them. I totally forgot about this. Now that you mention it, you're right -- the SA 8300HD box I had did indeed have a multistream CableCARD in it. So obviously the cards are capable of two-way communication.
Looks like the ball is in TiVo's corner on this one -- as it's their hardware that's the source of the problem.
It occurs to me that Comcast's licensing and eventual rollout of TiVo software on their own boxes could be an easy out for me, as it's the OS and GUI that I find so utterly unusable on cableco DVRs. |
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