[mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

[H P Ladds]

Here I go again: Isn't this a fairly big development in the Linux/CableCard
front?

TIVO Series 3 Cablecard
approved<http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/04/cablelabs_loves_tivo_series_3.shtml?utm_source=TLWeeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email>
http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/04/cablelabs_loves_tivo_series_3.shtml?utm_source=TLWeeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email

Tivo runs atop Linux -- no?


On 4/6/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What am I missing here? Isn't this a fairly significant development?
> CableCard/Linux machine available at CompUSA?
>
> A Linux Alternative To Windows Media Center PCs
> <http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId4428858>
> http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId4428858
>
> MediaReady 5000 <http://www.vwbinc.com/products.html>
> http://www.vwbinc.com/productspro.html
>
>
> On 1/12/06, Dean Collins <Dean at collins.net.pr> wrote:
> >
> > > Cable companies moving channels from basic cable or extended basic to
> > > digital cable just to force people to rent their underpowered cable
> > > boxes and pay more per month.
> > >
> > > Eventually there will be a "CableCARD Jon" and we'll be in an awkward
> > > position of having *hardware* that is legal to use under Windows and
> > > illegal to use under Linux!
> > >
> >
> > Not really, CableLabs have already proposed a new standard for the
> > Cablecard standard, it's a time wasting scam but pushes back the limits
> > imposed on them by the FCC.
> >
> > It was when I was briefed on this new standard that I decided to walk
> > from the US cable tv market.
> >
> > I'll be back in 3 years when everything is being delivered via IP.
> >
> > For those of you that were at CES 2006 you'll have seen that this is
> > coming both on a large scale and small scale implementations much faster
> > than anyone thought.
> >
> > The cabletv industry as we know it in 2005 will be as dead as the telcos
> >
> > are today, not gone but on the endangered species list, with every day
> > for them being measured as a good day.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >
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