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Cable's Answer to AppleTV?
BOCR uses cable cards to bridge PC, living room
by Karl Bode Tuesday 08-May-2007 tags: Video · business · hardware · alternatives · cable · content
Light Reading vaguely explores a cable industry initiative that will allow users to shift digital cable content to their PC (and vice-versa, a la AppleTV) by using a cablecard. The program is known as "BOCR" (for Bidirectional OpenCable Receiver), and will "support interactivity via the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), a middleware specified by CableLabs." As it stands, the project is only in proof-of-concept mode; it's being demo'd this week at the NCTA show in Las Vegas.

The system is an extension of the OCUR Cablelabs spec, which has yet to really take off -- ATI is the first and only company to offer gear for your PC (a user notes it's only available in pre-built PCs). The adoption of cablecards has also been glacially slow, with hardware vendors blaming cable companies and cable companies blaming hardware vendors, as well as a lack of consumer interest.

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wmcbrine
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Lack of interest?

Well, certainly many consumers are uninterested in CableCard on the awful terms which the cable companies are offering... but I'd call that a rigged game.
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Re: Lack of interest?

If they come up with 2-way cable cards which has DVR capbility and order ppv/vod then sign me in.
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said by wmcbrine:

a rigged game.
Ain't that the truth.
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Cable's Answer to AppleTV?

What is Apple TV?

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Re: Cable's Answer to AppleTV?

»www.apple.com/appletv/
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Re: Cable's Answer to AppleTV?

Oh... So what kind of picture quality does a video created for an Ipod screen have when it is displayed on a 40 inch tv?
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Re: Cable's Answer to AppleTV?

said by b10010011:

Oh... So what kind of picture quality does a video created for an Ipod screen have when it is displayed on a 40 inch tv?
He said Apple TV not iPod on the TV. The Apple TV supports resolutions up to 1280x720 with a frame rate of 24fps (30fps at lower resolutions) over HDMI. iPods don't support HDMI.
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Re: Cable's Answer to AppleTV?

Oh, I stopped reading after it said something about downloading a movie from iTunes.

I always thought iTunes were for iPods

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What is a cable card?
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The ATI device will only be available in pre-build computers

Before anyone gets too excited about the ATI TV Wonder OCUR tuner, see this article: »www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3609

ATI's device will only be available in pre-build, pre-configured computers.

With ATI killing off the AIW line and now this, I hope other manufactures can step up to the plate affordable user installable PC cards that add cablecard support. Once they come out with the bi-directional cablecards that is.

I would also expect any cablecard tuners that do come out to be heavily loaded/locked down with DRM.

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Re: The ATI device will only be available in pre-build computers

Yuck!
Have to purchase a digital to analog converter (work well with set top DVD burners)
Pictor Guy

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Dead

I thought the cable card was dead. Or at least it's on death row.

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Re: Dead

its only dead because cable companies made it that way. The simplicity for Cablecard is great for a second TV. I already have a cable box DVR, I just need to see all the channels on my second TV without a cluncky cable box. CableCARD is great for that.
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My Answer....

Here's something that works great.
»www.plextor.com/english/products/TV402U.htm

It's great for getting TV to the pc but you'll need something else to get something from pc to TV.

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