Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 17:41:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Tyler Trafford wrote:
> 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...

Oh, and a lot of Cable companies do offer cablecard, but they charge a
lot for installation.  It seems they do whatever they can to discourage
people from using it.  (Not first-hand info.)
-- 
Tyler Trafford

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