smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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Re: oh, so I see how it works...
What's that have to do with TiVo?
TiVo happens to be a device with USB ports and an Ethernet port, making it capable to communicate back to the cable headend.
Your TV with CableCard, not designed by TiVo, has no ports that would allow it to have a device that would communicate back to the cable headend.
I fail to see how TiVo is at fault. |
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
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| Because they're the same type of unimaginative people that would substitute Apple or Microsoft after the f word.
I'm just glad a solution was arrived at. I just hope the Cable Companies don't see this as another way to suck a few more bucks out of our wallets by saying they'll only rent the USB device. |
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cghh
join:2001-01-15
Milpitas, CA
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said by smcallah  :TiVo happens to be a device with USB ports and an Ethernet port, making it capable to communicate back to the cable headend. The "tuner resolver" will connect to both the cable and the USB port, and will communicate with the head end over the cable. No ethernet port is required. If a cablecard TV has a USB port and the ability to update its firmware, it potentially could be upgraded to handle SDV. |
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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| I never said it communicated with the headend over the Ethernet, I know how cable devices communicate with the headend, obviously, it's over the coax.
My point was, that the TiVo has USB ports and Ethernet, while his TV doesn't, which makes it incapable of having a dongle of any kind to allow SDV with CableCard. And somehow he was blaming TiVo for the make of his TV. |
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