CABLECard is a stupid standard that was DOA. A Downloadable Conditional Access System (google it) is going to be in place long before the FCC forces the Cable companies to stop shipping proprietary set top boxes. Plus, my local cable company's HD lineup isn't that much better than what I can get OTA (for free no less). The only reasons to bother with HD from Cox for sports (and who wants to time shift sporting events?!?!) or DiscoveryHD. By the time they start offering other non-local HD channels CABLECard will be a long forgotten memory.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Phatman @ Mar 16th 2007 2:47PM
CABLECard is a stupid standard that was DOA. A Downloadable Conditional Access System (google it) is going to be in place long before the FCC forces the Cable companies to stop shipping proprietary set top boxes. Plus, my local cable company's HD lineup isn't that much better than what I can get OTA (for free no less). The only reasons to bother with HD from Cox for sports (and who wants to time shift sporting events?!?!) or DiscoveryHD. By the time they start offering other non-local HD channels CABLECard will be a long forgotten memory.