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kudos:3 | reply to rv65
Re: CV with a TiVO and a Tuning Adapter... Okay... take a look at what I was saying again.. right now, it's not as "simple" as you make it. RCN has a VERY small footprint, subscriber wise. They hardly have anything that Comcast or TWC have.. even COX. Cable boxes have had DOCSIS cable modems in them for many years now.
As it stands, the current return path is more stable than IP based return path. (see above) Also, it takes rebuilding every head end at a very expensive expense, and to be honest, while they can do it "for TiVo".. um, again, as I said, Tivo is a parasite of a business.. why should comcast fork out the money to appease Tivo? Of course tivo has their desires and wishes.. however, you need to take their halo off that you're putting on them as Tivo isn't exactly a angel of a company themselves.. they really have nothing more than a concept patented, they've sued people over and over for "a concept".. they sell equipment to the end user that has the capability to be used with out a forced subscription rate, thus making them a service provider themselves..
Sure, Tivo has their desires, but I'm sure the cable industry has theirs too. In this situation, the fact that tivo brings nothing to the table of this game, I hardly don't think that they're in much of a position to 'want" anything.. of course they can, as they have no risk what so ever in the game.
And yes, cable MAY eventually migrate to IPTV.. comcast has been talking about it all the way to 2000, however, it's not happened, yet. Its hard to say where they are going right now.. they also said they'd be running fiber to every home back in the early 2000's too, but as technology advances, so does their ability to use their existing hybrid fiber network to deliver more than what they thought was possible back 10 years ago... so really, it's hard to say when or even if they will continue with the whole IPTV thing.. right now they're delivering a heck of a lot of programming.. I really am not sure if we're going to see the need to increase capacity to, well, infinity for the near future. But to say "eventually going to..." while that's a safe bet, it's not always a guaranteed bet. |
