fiberguy
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to Sammer
Re: Never will work
"....and may in fact turn out to be too little too late."
In what way? "too little too late" has a big implication.. what are you trying to say? .. that cable will go out of business? or that this ruling will go through and true2way will be moot? .. That Satellite will dominate becuase of this; a service that is largely 1-way and has box rental fees? what? I don't get it...
Tru2Way is much more than cable cards, today, are.. Also, what you don't probably get, is that cable card is just fine.. they're capable of multiple stream, they're two way.. the problem is that the HARDWARE that is made is not capable of interactive services.
To be honest, if Tivo worked with Cablelabs and simply made their boxes capable of working with the DAC and other head end hardware the same as any moto or S/A box, this would be a non issue..
What's at play here is mostly politics than anything. |
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RadioDoc
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join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| The problem is you practically have to wave firearms at the MSO to get them to cut loose with a CableCARD, and even then Comcast charges a ridiculous installation fee plus monthly rental, so that "consumers could get CableCARDs and a TiVO" is not quite as simple as the industry would like Karl to believe. Been there, done that. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| I'll agree with you on the fees. It doesn't take a degree to install a cable card. Power down the device, insert card (anyone with an older laptop has likely used this type of card already) power on device, go into the menu, give numbers to operator.
The company would SAVE money by allowing self installs. In my opinion, give the chance for a self install. If you can't do it yourself and need a tech, then you should pay the roll. This is how Qwest used to do DSL installs.. (you did it for free, but you need a tech, you pay - makes sense) |
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