Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 17:27:03

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> 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?
> 

According to this it should be July 2004.
http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/CableCARDprimer.php

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