Shift To SDV Leaving Some CableCARD Owners Stranded > Slanted playing field by design

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.