| OCAP and CableCards You're confusing OCAP and downloadable security. OCAP was rebranded as tru2way and had nothing to do with authentication - the purpose of CableCards.
OCAP was the open cable application platform that allows developers to write an application once that would run on all cable systems. There are a siginificant number of tru2way developers and they continue to do some interesting work. HITS Axis was one example that is now part of the Comcast Media Center.
CableCards, on the other hand, are little more than a security token that authenticates your CE device on the network. There had been discussion of a better, easier model of downloadable security that is on hold largely because the FCC forced the cable industry to implement CableCards even though they knew it was an inferior technology.
In it's inquiry into the set-top market, the current FCC leadership recently acknowledged that decision was a mistake and has done nothing to benefit consumers. |
