Either way, we hope that the FCC makes both options the standard, as we can see were TV manufacturers might prefer to cut costs and let the cable co' manage the code, but at the same time leave TiVo to continue to innovate.

ENGADGET: Time Warner Cable deploys 150k OpenCable STBs, aka CableCARD 2.0

They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.

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