Here I go again: Isn't this a fairly big development in the Linux/CableCard front?<br><br><a href="http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/04/cablelabs_loves_tivo_series_3.shtml?utm_source=TLWeeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email">
TIVO Series 3 Cablecard approved</a><br><a href="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
</a><br><br>Tivo runs atop Linux -- no? <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">H P Ladds</b> <<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com">householdwords@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">What am I missing here? Isn't this a fairly significant development?
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dean Collins</b> <<a href="mailto:Dean@collins.net.pr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Dean@collins.net.pr
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> Cable companies moving channels from basic cable or extended basic to<br>> digital cable just to force people to rent their underpowered cable<br>> boxes and pay more per month.<br>><br>> Eventually there will be a "CableCARD Jon" and we'll be in an awkward
<br>> position of having *hardware* that is legal to use under Windows and<br>> illegal to use under Linux!<br>><br><br>Not really, CableLabs have already proposed a new standard for the<br>Cablecard standard, it's a time wasting scam but pushes back the limits
<br>imposed on them by the FCC.<br><br>It was when I was briefed on this new standard that I decided to walk<br>from the US cable tv market.<br><br>I'll be back in 3 years when everything is being delivered via IP.<br><br>
For those of you that were at CES 2006 you'll have seen that this is<br>coming both on a large scale and small scale implementations much faster<br>than anyone thought.<br><br>The cabletv industry as we know it in 2005 will be as dead as the telcos
<br>are today, not gone but on the endangered species list, with every day<br>for them being measured as a good day.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Dean<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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