[mythtv-users] Letter from Hauppauge president regarding cable card

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone got a form letter we can send?
> >
> > Much better to write your own - no matter how inarticulate you may feel.
> > If ${representative} gets a lot of identical letters, they often either
> disregard them or just count them all as just one.
> >
> > That's on the basis that these days it's just so easy to organise a mass
> "letter" writing by providing a form letter and getting people to "just
> click to send". Thus if they gets lots of identical letters or emails, they
> are likely to assume it's a load of people just clicking without
> necessarily having considered what it is they are "writing" about. That's
> the downside of the ease of contacting them these days.
>
> It is also why sending "real" letters (not email) is considered
> by most of your congress critters to be more significant than
> flooding in-boxes or posting to their pages.
>
> My personal problem with this "campaign" (other than it
> is really about corporate spin) is that I am not wedded to
> CableCARD as a technology (it works, I use it, nothing else
> is out there yet).  I would rather see a FCC ruling that
> consumers have access to the content (at reasonable
> cost/availability) for *all* providers.  That means Cable,
> Satellite, and Video over IP providers (and any other
> content providers).  It should be noted that the Cable
> industry is moving to a pure IP delivery platform, so
> CableCARDs are on their way out for everything in the
> longer term anyway (we are mostly talking about when, not
> if) and the current CableCARD content rules do not apply
> to Video over IP providers (talk to the u-Verse subscribers,
> or the Google Fiber subscribers).  So this should not be
> about preserving a CableCARD portfolio, but about insuring
> access.  TiVo has already been working with Comcast for
> alternative delivery solutions (which do not include
> CableCARDs).  That *might* be a way forward in the long
> term.  The issue with most of the current solutions is
> that they tend to be focused first on protection of the
> content, and only secondly on accessibility (eliminating
> options that include open source, non-DRM implementing,
> platforms).  Focus on what we want, not on how it is
> implemented.  That is a much harder campaign to run,
> especially for those that want a 2 second sound bite
> (the 10 second sound bite is so last decade).
>
> Gary
>

Not sure if you were aware this is in the works:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/28/7086201/internet-tv-rule-change-proposed-fcc

Karl
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