IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | Slanted playing field by design Let me see:
FCC orders Cable Companies to offer cable Cards to their customers at low price.
Cable companies own the shop which agrees all new Cable Card technology and checks that such hardware is good BEFORE they can be offered to customers
Cable Companies want customers to lease their own Hard Drive based recorders
Thus TIVO users and other Cable Card users suddenly lose channels unless they drop their existing hardware and lease Cable Boxes. |
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| said by IanR:Let me see: FCC orders Cable Companies to offer cable Cards to their customers at low price. Cable companies own the shop which agrees all new Cable Card technology and checks that such hardware is good BEFORE they can be offered to customers Cable Companies want customers to lease their own Hard Drive based recorders Thus TIVO users and other Cable Card users suddenly lose channels unless they drop their existing hardware and lease Cable Boxes. Amen! |
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| I dumped Cox cable for this very reason and was fortunate enough to have the option to get Verizon's Fios service at my home. They are not using SDV and the picture quality was much better and there was no hassle with the cable cards with Verizon like there was with COX. |
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 MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
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said by IanR:Cable companies own the shop which agrees all new Cable Card technology and checks that such hardware is good BEFORE they can be offered to customers Funny thing is... the same organization that approves CableCARD certified gear also certifies DOCSIS equipment and there is no shortage of approved gear from a variety of vendors even though cable companies rent out modems too.
That SAME organization is certifying the "tuning resolver"(with a return transmitter in it) to allow the Tivo to be SDV compatible.
Why didn't Tivo build their boxes with transmitters in them (for 2-way use with the CableCARD) in the first place? Why did Tivo cheap out and just their boxes to the FCC DCR spec instead of the CableLabs CHILA specs released 3 years ago? |
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