CABLE CARD dead????

[queonda]

Nice article. My buddy tried to get a cable card from comcast but they told him it won't work on his TV. He is technically challaged and I don't have a tv that supports it,, so I havn't checked into it.

READ: http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2006/07/nyt_dissin_the_.html

[MarcP]

CableCard 1.0 was dead in the water right from the start.

You're link isn't working, by the way.

[Khris]

Link works fine.

[MarcP]

Ok.. Wasn't working earlier. Now it is.

[rakeshagrawal]

From my comment on PVR Blogs:

This story misses out on two important things, IMO: 1) CableLabs' requirements for certification are very onerous and that's driven up the cost of adding CableCard support to a device, and it's driven down the number of devices that support the technology and 2) In spite of this barrier, there are products, such as TiVo Series3 and Vista MCE, that will soon support CableCard. And I don't think CableCard one-wayness will pose a problem on those devices because these devices assume some sort of Internet connection and they have the computing power and base platform to run their own apps. That's probably where living room technology is headed anyways (Internet-connected, reasonable computing power, some base software platform), so I'm not sure that two-way CableCard technology will actually help things at all.