At least year's CEDIA, EI's quad-CableCARD 754 LifeMedia server was all the rage.
ENGADGET: Niveus says "never enough," adds support for eight CableCARDs / ten Extenders
Forget CableCARD, OEM's will need a Platinum Corporate Card to afford the CableLabs certification fees for CableCARD 2.0 computers.
If the provider offers a self install for leased set-top boxes, they must also allow self install of a CableCARD.
ENGADGET: FCC to bring down new CableCARD rules in October 14th meeting
The WD-73732 and WD-73831 both include dual HDMI inputs, along with a FireWire port, CableCARD slot, and multi-format card readers.
If a customer has a CableCARD in their leased set-top box, it must be reflected on the bill like any other CableCARD would.
ENGADGET: FCC to bring down new CableCARD rules in October 14th meeting
OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) would allow the cable company to download the same software to every CableCARD 2.0 host device regardless of the manufacturer.
Considering how tru2way failed though and the recent lukewarm FCC CableCARD rule changes, it would seem this is just the reality we live in.
ENGADGET: Shocker: Google hoping to lure more cable providers to cool Google TV side of the room
Based on others review we had very low expectations about the CableCARD install, the hardest part of the CableCARD install was getting the installer to do his part.
Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.
ENGADGET: Niveus says "never enough," adds support for eight CableCARDs / ten Extenders
Most of us have been confused about why our CableCARD host devices don't support two-way services, and it's been wildly misunderstood that we were waiting for CableCARD 2.0.
ENGADGET: Time Warner Cable deploys 150k OpenCable STBs, aka CableCARD 2.0
Hold their hand during the inevitably bad CableCARD installation.
There's a little something in this week's Circuits section of the New York Times about CableCard, a newish technology for cable TV that you're going to be hearing a lot about soon.
To say that the past few years have had a few disappointments is an understatement, especially when you think back to the way CableCARD support was implemented and how poorly the Extenders have been supported.
ENGADGET: Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server?
Mitsubishi has some love for their LCD line as well, with two 37-inch (LT-37131 and LT-37132) and two 46-inch 1080p displays (LT-46131 and LT-46231), featuring similar connectivity to the DLP line but replacing CableCARD with DVI-I.
Vista's fun run-in with CableCARD started earlier this year when we all found out at CES that they had every intention to finally make Windows (specifically Vista Home Premium and Ultimate) work with your CableCARD setup.
The other, less interesting stipulation, is that you might be entitled to at least one free set-top box or CableCARD for up to five years, depending on what package you subscribe to or if you are on Medicaid.
ENGADGET: FCC to allow encryption of basic cable, with a few strings that Boxee approves of
That is definitely changing (we know Sony is planning a CableCard-ready HD digital video recorder and TiVo has told us they are working on one, too), but in the meantime we'll live with the setup we have now.
The TV itself is CableCard ready, can support sound over HDMI and PCM inputs, and offers Mitsu's 120Hz film dejuddering -- that rather awkwardly makes your favorite films look like they were shot by a TV news crew.
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's new iSP 149 series LCDs have it all in one place
All the same, once these details have been hammered out and are out in the open, it should lead to a much smoother roll out of tru2way than its CableCard 1.0 predecessor and ensure everyone's equipment works as planned.
ENGADGET: Cable ops, consumer electronics manufacturers sign agreement on tru2way roll out
Still, this development is good news for consumers, as it should lead to increased demand for the cards, which will hopefully serve as a kick in the pants for the weak link in the CableCARD chain, whoever it is.
ENGADGET: CableLabs approves Motorola's multi-stream CableCARD
Runners-up include the TiVo Series3 -- the most impressive hardware offering ever produced by the company and probably the best DVR experience commercially available for those taking advantage of its CableCARD capabilities -- and the Sony PlayStation 3 .
SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
This meant that users were free to swap the CableCARD to another device without so much as a call to Verizon, and more importantly, it meant that all the content was accessible via features like TiVo To Go and Media Center Recorded TV sharing.
ENGADGET: Verizon FiOS TV finally getting tough on CableCARD users HD
Not sure why some are so scared of the unknowns, but after we convinced the CSR to send the installer with the CableCARDs and then convinced the installer to follow the TiVo CableCARD installer directions, everything was down hill from there and we were enjoying premium HD content, TiVo style.
The other point that has been covered in every review is the fact that, if you only have one single stream CableCARD (The Series3 support two single stream or one Multi-stream card) then you can only use one tuner, even on OTA, despite the fact that there is no technical reason for this.
It's not really clear why the old CableCARD hasn't taken off as expected -- consumers blame their cable providers, who blame the card manufacturers, who blame device makers -- but nonetheless, the technology is far from dead, and now it looks like those long-awaited multi-stream CARDS could be available before the end of the year.
ENGADGET: CableLabs approves Motorola's multi-stream CableCARD
Besides meaning you have one less ugly component to deal with, getting rid of the cable box also usually means better picture quality and you don't have pay rental fees for your box any more (though we have faith that the cable companies will eventually find a way to charge seven bucks a month for CableCard rentals).
Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
Now we come to find out some even worse news about CableCARD and Vista: not only will you not be able to re-stream your high def media to other Windows machines (sorry, Vista capable Media Center Extenders only, i.e. the Xbox 360, and not much else), you won't even be able to transcode and sync to your PMC or other devices, as is currently possible.
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