Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 17:35:30

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:
> 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

I think Tivo is waiting for CableCard 2.0 or 3.0...
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Tyler Trafford

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