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How Much Bandwidth for HDTV? « Connected Home 2 Go — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:24:02 +0000

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By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:30:43 +0000

Given that the vast majority of cable card installations are in TVs, which presumably can’t be flash upgraded, have low-end CPUs, and little available memory, it seems unlikely that most cable cards will continue to function after the SDV switch.

Even for Vista Multimedia PCs and Tivo Series 3′s with cable cards in them (which barely function at the moment) I’m less optimistic than you. The CC 2.0 specs are going nowhere, and OCAP is years away from standardization.

Glenn

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Zatz Not Funny!»Blog Archive » Digital Media Bytes — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:57:36 +0000

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By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:53:15 +0000

The CC 2.0 discussion has been dragging on for years now. Personally I don’t have much hope that an agreement will be worked out in the near future. The cable industry and the CE industry seem to be at polar opposites – OCAP vs. an open API. Basically the difference between the cable MSOs controlling the UI, via OCAP applications, vs. CE vendors developing their own UI and calling the MSO’s content as a service. (I’d prefer the latter.)

I suspect there will be a decoupled solution to address SDV, and perhaps VOD, independent of the full CC 2.0 spec. TiVo’s CEO, Tom Rogers, recently indicated such a solution is being worked on during his testimony before Congress.

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Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:53:02 +0000

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