[mythtv-users] SiliconDust to Announce CableCard Product at CES[RUMOR]

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Jan 4 15:42:26 UTC 2010


On Monday 04 January 2010 08:30:42 am jedi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:37:32AM -0500, Dean Collins wrote:
> > It's will be a cold day in hell when the CableLabs consortium allow open
> > access to cablecard, basically give up on the idea, they are too
> > closeminded and like the dinosaurs will eventually die off and be
> > extinct before their pea brains realize what happened.
> 
> ...besides: If you use satellite cable you can't use this thing anyways.
> 
> At this point CableLabs might be thinking that they are better off pushing
> out CC devices with reasonable Windows support rather than to wait for the
> HDPVR and inevitable competitors to become commonplace with Sage and MCE
> users.

Of course the MPAA and company are lobbying hard to close the "analog hole", 
if they succeed the HDPVR will be an expensive paperweight.

They might use the availability of "alternatives" to push their satellite 
unfriendly "solution".


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