Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 17:14:32

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> John I wrote:
> 
>> Trouble wrote:
>  
>>> I would have gone lifetime but I get the sneaking suspicion that I
>>> won't be keeping one or both of these units when they come out with a
>>> Multi- tuner HD unit with Cablecard. 
>  
>> It seems like a quick lifecycle concept.
> 
> I bought an older unit from a guy who had the hard drive die out of 
> warranty, if he had lifetime on it and paid for the drive to be replaced 
> he'd still be watching it today.
> 
> If TiVo had somehow come out with the same tech years ago (before there 
> were five hundred cable channels, a free versatile operating system, and 
> cheap hard drives) many people would be dealing with older dying TiVos, 
> but right now people are waiting on the HD TiVos, newer units with 
> Cablecard, competition from knockoff products, direct competiton from 
> cable sattelite companies, and other things that are churning them faster 
> than they die.
> 

I looked into cablecard at some point but don't remember anything. Am I 
correct in assuming the cable companies are required to support cablecard at 
some point down the line?

-- 
Jim

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