rtbond
join:2007-11-28
Hopatcong, NJ
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Re: [iO] Tru2way News
Thanks for your thoughtful response. My interest in Tru2way is to be able to avoid having to rent a Set-top Box for every viewing location in the house, while enjoying 2-way interactive services available from Cablevision. With that said this means the availability of Tru2way capable consumer electronics devices (i.e., digital TVs and DVRs).
If Cablevision's Tru2way solution will rely on a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS) rather than a CableCard-based security solution, does this not require consumer electronics manufactures to build special Tru2way capable devices that support DCAS rather than a MSO-provided CableCard (security) plugin device? For instance the digital TVs or DVRs would require adequate memory to store the DCAS data rather than relying on the Cable Card device to store this data.
On one hand I like the idea of not having to rent a CableCard, but on the other if the DCAS being used by Cablevision means limited to no availability of digital TVs/DVRs that work on the Cablevision system then that is not a good thing.
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TheWiseGuy
Dog And Butterfly
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join:2002-07-04
Yonkers, NY
| said by rtbond  :If Cablevision's Tru2way solution will rely on a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS) rather than a CableCard-based security solution, does this not require consumer electronics manufactures to build special Tru2way capable devices that support DCAS rather than a MSO-provided CableCard (security) plugin device? For instance the digital TVs or DVRs would require adequate memory to store the DCAS data rather than relying on the Cable Card device to store this data. I can only go by what I have read, in reading the article, which is a good one, I believe that it is mainly that CV will issue boxes that are DCAS but that would not keep someone from using CableCard compatible equipment. So I believe you would be able to use a tru2way TV via CableCard.
The negative is that a single standard across all Cable providers for security would lower the overall production costs for consumer equipment.
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RemyM
join:2005-02-14
Stamford, CT
| I hope that means that they will use the downloadable security for their boxes instead of Cablecards, but you will still be able to buy 3rd party Tru2way devises, rent the Cablecard, and get the full Tru2way benefit. If they require the NDS downloadable security to be in the 3rd party devise to get the full Tru2way benefit then I fear we will have a very limited selection of 3rd party devises. |
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TheWiseGuy
Dog And Butterfly
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join:2002-07-04
Yonkers, NY
| Here is another interesting read discussing Cablecards and DCAS and OCAP, (OpenCable Application Platform). I guess we will have to wait and see how the whole thing works out.
»arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/200···card.ars
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rtbond
join:2007-11-28
Hopatcong, NJ
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Perhaps in the Cablevision Tru2way deployments a CableCard will be provided for 3rd party devices that effectively forces the device to download the conditional access information from the network, storing the information in the Cablevision-provided Tru2way Cablecard?
Time will tell. |
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rtbond
join:2007-11-28
Hopatcong, NJ
| Here is another article on the topic of Tru2way deployment delays.
»www.lightreading.com/document.as···ite=cdn&
Unfortunately no Cablevision-specific information.
Note the last section of the article on the availability of Tru2way consumer electronics. |
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