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Re: Who Killed the Open Set-Top-Box?Really sad news, Tivo badly needs the competition - their UI is still incomplete, buggy, and slow. Ceton gave a lot of folks hope that there would be a decent alternative and now that's pretty much gone.
It doesn't bode well for Cablecard's future, and there's no IP-based standard coming down the pipe to replace it. Sad. |
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said by GTFan:It doesn't bode well for Cablecard's future, and there's no IP-based standard coming down the pipe to replace it. Sad. The FCC killd the future of the CableCARD with the announcement of the DOA AllVid. The IP-based method all the major players (Comcast, TWC, Cox, DirecTV, HBO, NBC, ESPN, Disney, Adobe, etc) are using is "TV Everywhere", even Tivo has announced upcoming products for it: » www.engadget.com/2012/05 ··· -everyw/TVeverywhere covers distribution, content protection, authorization, and billing. There are clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox, various TV OSs, and many other products. |
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2012-Oct-6 10:45 pm
"TV Everywhere" is going nowhere on 3rd party DVRs so far. |
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2012-Oct-7 12:46 am
The 1 active maker of them has started working on it |
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blame the cable co who made more by renting 3-4+ year old cable boxes at high rates.
We need to be like Canadian systems where you can buy the cable box with rent / outlet or mirroring fees. |
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2012-Oct-7 1:04 pm
said by Joe12345678:blame the cable co who made more by renting 3-4+ year old cable boxes at high rates.
We need to be like Canadian systems where you can buy the cable box with rent / outlet or mirroring fees. Wow in Canada you can buy those 3-4+ year old boxes with the horrible guides... big deal. It's just the cable company boxes being resold through retailers, many you can't even use in other systems in Canada. You're stuck trying to resell a box when you move. Then you can't even use a Ceton, Tivo, Moxi, or anything that uses a CableCARD. You're stuck using a Tivo DT2 or earlier, hanging off a cable box of course to get the encrypted channels. Great system to want... the Canadian system. |
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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. |
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but you are not paying $8-$15 per tv in fees. |
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2012-Oct-7 9:45 pm
But if the US had the canadian "buy a box" system we would just have $15 outlet mirror fees. You can't win. |
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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... |
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2012-Oct-8 8:06 am
You can no longer buy the Moxi. |
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2012-Oct-8 9:53 am
said by GTFan:You can no longer buy the Moxi. You can buy them used. |
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said by DocDrew: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/produc ··· 01GQ8MT8EDIT: 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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2012-Oct-8 12:38 pm
Yep, Moxi is a dead man walking. Stay away, far away. |
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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 ··· ing-179/ |
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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 ··· 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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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 businessBy Steve Donohue, FierceCable - October 25, 2012 » www.fiercecable.com/stor ··· 12-10-25From 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/doc ··· 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/doc ··· d=202538 ) |
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2012-Oct-25 11:38 am
what does this mean for comcast, time warner, suddenlik,etc? Do they have to sell set tops as well? |
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2012-Oct-25 11:44 am
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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-pol ··· lecards/Here's one for TWC: » www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· x-rental |
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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 ··· 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-w ··· -center/ |
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2012-Dec-3 12:16 pm
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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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 reviewBy Ben Drawbaugh, Engadget - December 11, 2012 » www.engadget.com/2012/12 ··· -review/ |
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