[mythtv-users] Comcast goes Mpeg4 in Atlanta

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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> This is welcome news to me.

Remember, in Comcast terms, eventually may not mean the same
as you might wish it to mean.  It ain't over till it's over.

(There is some conjecture that Atlanta was chosen to expedite
the ability to be able to respond to a future competitive offering.)

> I'm on Comcast in the Bay Area and I'd been
> holding out on getting a CableCard device because of the promise of the
> SiliconDust transcoding version (for 3-4 years now...!).

To be fair, the transcoding CableCARD model was shown at
CES 2013 (with an expected ship date mid-2013), so only
2 years.  I know, that can seem like forever in Internet years
(especially when you wanted it yesterday).  However I think
almost everyone agrees that the marketing got way ahead
of themselves.

> Maybe they figured this transition was inevitable and the business
> case no longer made sense for that product.

There have been many conjectures about the various reasons
the transcoding CableCARD model has never been released.
Some make sense, some less so.  But the business reasons
were never stated.