Who Killed the Open Set-Top-Box? - Comcast Cable TV

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DrDrew So that others may surf. join:2009-01-28 SoCal kudos:8	reply to Joe12345678 Re: Who Killed the Open Set-Top-Box? said by Joe12345678: they have good stuff like this. Shaw Gateway Experience »www.shaw.ca/Gateway/ in the usa you can get the same boxes at insane rent prices. That's the re-badged Moxi gear.... wonder if it works if you move out of a Shaw area... In the US you can get the Tivo, old Moxi, Ceton gear. Either way you pay for the boxes. The cable companies aren't stopping 3rd parties from selling boxes. There just aren't very many selling in the US. If there was more of a demand there would be more companies selling them and making quarterly profits doing it. Tivo may be behind why there are fewer companies interested in making them, at least DVRs... -- If it's important, back it up... twice. Even 99.999% availability isn't enough sometimes.
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	reply to signmeuptoo said by signmeuptoo: A lot being discussed here is shooting over the top of my head. May I pop in and ask? I am a comcast customer, can I build a PC and get a cable card and tuner and get content just like the cable HD box? From what I gather from all your comments is that I cannot? You can, using Windows 7 and a cablecard tuner from Ceton, SiliconDust, or Hauppauge. You can also use the Xbox360 as an extender (STB) on secondary TVs. »www.thegreenbutton.tv is a great place to start for this.
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	reply to DrDrew You can no longer buy the Moxi.
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DrDrew So that others may surf. join:2009-01-28 SoCal kudos:8	said by GTFan: You can no longer buy the Moxi. You can buy them used.
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2 1 edit	said by DrDrew: said by GTFan: You can no longer buy the Moxi. You can buy them used. If not from eBay, Amazon also shows some used ones for sale: »www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GQ8MT8 EDIT: As far as support for the old Moxi DVRs, there had been a note on the company's home page for a while that indicated tech support and guide data would come to an end at the end of 2013 (»Re: [STB] Moxi ), but then it was removed, and now it says (»www.moxi.com/us ): A few weeks ago we incorrectly posted a notice regarding discontinuation of our Moxi program guide data. We currently have no plans to discontinue service. Thank you for your support.
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	Yep, Moxi is a dead man walking. Stay away, far away.
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	reply to GTFan FYI - Today's news on Ceton's Echo Windows Media Center Extender: Ceton's $179 Echo Windows Media Center Extender is ready to go on sale 'around Thanksgiving' By Richard Lawler, Engadget - October 11, 2012 »www.engadget.com/2012/10/11/ceto···ing-179/
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halfband Premium join:2002-06-01 Huntsville, AL Reviews: ·Comcast	reply to signmeuptoo With the exception of VOD the answer is, you can. Ceton makes a PC tuner card that uses a cable card. Silicon Dust makes a network based cable card tuner (I have one, works great.) Hauppauge makes a usb based cable card tuner (that is based on the silcondust technology). Combined with a win7 pc's media center you can make a very capable DVR that provides an excellent user experience. It will even stream to an xbox as media center extender. -- Registered Bandwidth Offender #40812
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	reply to telcodad said by telcodad: FYI - Today's news on Ceton's Echo Windows Media Center Extender: Ceton's $179 Echo Windows Media Center Extender is ready to go on sale 'around Thanksgiving' By Richard Lawler, Engadget - October 11, 2012 »www.engadget.com/2012/10/11/ceto···ing-179/ Yep, and at the price (and with the limited feature set/tech specs) they're offering, it's about $79 too high. Which is too bad, because we need alternatives to the Xbox. For $179 I expect it to be a damn good extender, which it should be, but also be able to play damn near everything I can throw at it, which it won't. At least not going by the specs Ceton has posted for it so far. And with WMC being all but abandoned by MS, I'm guessing the already slim market for the Echo will be even smaller.
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2 1 edit	reply to halfband said by halfband: But if the US had the canadian "buy a box" system we would just have $15 outlet mirror fees. You can't win. Looks like someone is trying to get that system here: Former judge sues Cox for forcing subscribers to lease set-tops Stanley Feldman asks U.S. District Court to make Cox disgorge profits from set-top business By Steve Donohue, FierceCable - October 25, 2012 »www.fiercecable.com/story/former···12-10-25 From the article: The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Tucson, alleges that Cox is violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by tying set-top rentals to pay TV subscriptions. In addition to asking the court to require Cox to give subscribers the option to buy set-tops instead of renting the boxes, it wants Cox to disgorge profits generated from renting set-tops. Also, from Light Reading Cable today (»www.lightreading.com/document.as···d=226367 ): Cox Communications Inc. is under fire for charging set-top box rental fees to customers wanting TV services beyond the basic tier. Stanley Feldman, a former state Supreme Court judge, is asking a district court in Tucson to ban Cox from forcing customers to pay the monthly US$6.99 fee. He wants an option to buy the equipment from third parties. The case started as a national class-action lawsuit against Cox, but a federal judge in Oklahoma rejected it, ruling that customers can file individual complaints in their home states, reports the Arizona Daily Star. Cable has pursued the retail angle with tru2way, but the common middleware/headend platform failed to spur a retail market for cable set-tops. (See Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail: »www.lightreading.com/document.as···d=202538 )
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mikedz4 join:2003-04-14 Weirton, WV	what does this mean for comcast, time warner, suddenlik,etc? Do they have to sell set tops as well?
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	np
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	reply to mikedz4 These lawsuits have been brought before and have gone nowhere to the best of my knowledge. I'm not sure why that is. Here's another one against Comcast (there's more if you Google it): »arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008···lecards/ Here's one for TWC: »www.cedmagazine.com/news/2008/08···x-rental
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	reply to GTFan said by GTFan: said by telcodad: FYI - Today's news on Ceton's Echo Windows Media Center Extender: Ceton's $179 Echo Windows Media Center Extender is ready to go on sale 'around Thanksgiving' By Richard Lawler, Engadget - October 11, 2012 »www.engadget.com/2012/10/11/ceto···ing-179/ Yep, and at the price (and with the limited feature set/tech specs) they're offering, it's about $79 too high. Which is too bad, because we need alternatives to the Xbox. For $179 I expect it to be a damn good extender, which it should be, but also be able to play damn near everything I can throw at it, which it won't. At least not going by the specs Ceton has posted for it so far. And with WMC being all but abandoned by MS, I'm guessing the already slim market for the Echo will be even smaller. FYI - Just saw this blog item: Get Windows 8 Pro Media Center for FREE! By Craig Buckler, SitePoint - November 30, 2012 »www.sitepoint.com/free-windows-8···-center/
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GTFan join:2004-12-03	Old news for those that run 7MC today and knew about the deal, but more importantly 8MC has some serious issues right now (like breaking compatability with existing extenders and removing network bridging for Ceton tuners) and no new features to justify using it. MS has abandoned development on the product. It's good that it's free, because in its current state it should be. The other sad part to this story is that the Ceton Echo has just been released and is riddled with bugs and DOA boxes. They'll likely get this fixed over time, but for a small company it's a big blow IMO.
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	said by GTFan: The other sad part to this story is that the Ceton Echo has just been released and is riddled with bugs and DOA boxes. They'll likely get this fixed over time, but for a small company it's a big blow IMO. Yeah, Engadget was disappointed also: Ceton Echo Windows Media Center Extender review By Ben Drawbaugh, Engadget - December 11, 2012 »www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/ceto···-review/
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	reply to camper As this article says, it's not clear how this appeals court ruling could impact the use of CableCARDs now: Appeals court rejects FCC's 'plug and play' rules Decision could impact CableCARD, AllVid proceedings By Steve Donohue, FierceCable - January 16, 2013 »www.fiercecable.com/story/appeal···13-01-16
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Joe12345678 join:2003-07-22 Des Plaines, IL	get ready to pay more and want tivo well you can rent a comcast tivo box at a higher price. and yes you tivo that you have now will not work and no your lifetime tivo = 0 as there are no tivo fees with a comcast tivo.
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Kearnstd Elf Wizard Premium join:2002-01-22 Mullica Hill, NJ	reply to camper This might sound strange but why is there nothing like DOCSIS for TV? If I buy a DOCSIS 3 modem, I activate it with Comcast and their system looks at my billing, and then sends my modem the right bootfile. Couldnt cable boxes have a generic standard like DOCSIS is for data services and as such you just have a boot file indicating which channels you get. -- [65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports
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Joe12345678 join:2003-07-22 Des Plaines, IL	they want to you to rent there cable box. At a time they tried to make you pay per IP and tried to ban routers as well.
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