I don't think the CE have a snowball's chance in hell winning this battle with cable companies. Cable companies still own their cable plants and have the right to allow or refuse any piece of equipment that may damage the network or cause issues to other customers.
If CE manufacturer wants to sell a 2-way piece of equipment (set-top box, DVR or a TV) to work with a Multi-Stream CableCARD they have to play by CableLabs rules. CableLabs is a standards organization. All of cable companies work to comply with CableLabs specifications so why should CE vendors be exempt from following the rules?
Alex, Exempt from the rules? The whole point of OpenCable is to introduce competition into the market, forcing every manufacturer to use the same software violates the intention of congress.
This is like saying that every ISP customer has to use the same operating system or even web browser, after all they are all 2-way devices.
CableLabs should have no problem coming up with a 2-way protocol that allows CE companies to write their own code and that will resist "damage the network or cause issues".
I'm sure you still rent your home phone from the phone company too.
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Alex D. @ Jun 19th 2007 9:52AM
I don't think the CE have a snowball's chance in hell winning this battle with cable companies. Cable companies still own their cable plants and have the right to allow or refuse any piece of equipment that may damage the network or cause issues to other customers.
If CE manufacturer wants to sell a 2-way piece of equipment (set-top box, DVR or a TV) to work with a Multi-Stream CableCARD they have to play by CableLabs rules. CableLabs is a standards organization. All of cable companies work to comply with CableLabs specifications so why should CE vendors be exempt from following the rules?
Ben @ Jun 19th 2007 9:57AM
Alex,
Exempt from the rules?
The whole point of OpenCable is to introduce competition into the market, forcing every manufacturer to use the same software violates the intention of congress.
This is like saying that every ISP customer has to use the same operating system or even web browser, after all they are all 2-way devices.
CableLabs should have no problem coming up with a 2-way protocol that allows CE companies to write their own code and that will resist "damage the network or cause issues".
I'm sure you still rent your home phone from the phone company too.