[mythtv-users] MythTV to become obsolete?

[Shay]

At 12:18 PM 9/15/2003, you wrote:
>Joseph A. Caputo said:
> > Shouldn't be a problem... while you may not be able to directly tune
> > digital
> > cable if the industrial-political stars don't align, you'll be no worse
> > off
> > than you are now (currently you need a set-top box to tune digital cable,
> > whether through Myth or your TV).  Or did you think that every TV in a
> > home
> > getting digital cable would be rendered obsolete also?
>
>Well, I was basing it on the fact that last year, we had news that the FCC
>was *requiring* digital tuners in new televisions:
>
>http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3815516.htm
>
>and this OpenCable standard is support through plug n' play cards that
>plug directly into the tv itself.  The cards are responsible for actually
>decrypting the streams.  So, unless your tv has a TV-out, you'll be out of
>luck.  There's no opportunity to drop a mythtv box in between the tv and
>the cable, as there is with the external tuner boxes now.
>
>Course, I might be misunderstanding, but this is why I wondered....
>
>I agree that 1-3 year might be pessimistic, but 5 years out (actually, the
>FCC estimates 2007), and MythTV will (possibly...I could be missing
>something) able to function.
>_______________________________________________

2007 and we won't even have digital cable, it will be something completely 
different..  hell, it will probably all be fiberoptic with some sort of 
biosignal or something unfricken believable..  We'll all have a jack in the 
back of our heads and we'll be running the wet-wear version of MythHead.

-Shay


wet-wear?  wet-ware?  uh...