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Just a reference I found - http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9685948-1.html - Quote "The March 1 deadline applies to manufacturers, not retailers. Whatever's on the shelf at Circuit City or Best Buy on February 28 will still be there the following day" so you should still be able to buy the old cards, even from snapstream. Other options, they can disable the analog tuner and just sell the cards as capture devices from cable boxes (this could be done with new drivers) so theoretically they could continue to manufacture them, although I doubt they will. I assume they will make HVR1600's, then maybe a replacement for the pvr500 lacking the analog tuner other than a couple channels (3 and 4) strictly for cable/satellite.

Now here's a gray area, you could still use an analog tuner with a cable box to get all non-digital non-encrypted channels, which then becomes unfair since someone who just want analog cable gets screwed. Hopefully, they can workaround just by updating the drivers to disable the antenna inputs and could still sell pvr500's (then of course all the end user needs to do is use an older driver, which is completely legal)

Our government is really, really stupid.

By the way, March is boycott the RIAA month, nothing to do with this topic but what the hell, when discussing stupidity they came to mind.