said by Eagles1221:Why would a cable company TV manufacturer give you an option to save money? You clearly need to take Business Unethics 101 again!
There... fixed it for you
. Unless maybe the cable companies and the TV/video equipment manufacturers are somehow in cahoots with each other and the cableco's are asking the TV makers to not add CableCARD slots to their TV's?
Making such a feature available would appeal to quite a few folks maybe, just like LED backlighting and 1080p.