Michael, with OpenCable you would be able to walk in to Best Buy and buy a box from Tivo, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Motorola, SA, etc. That's the whole premise for the Separable Security Mandate by FCC and Congress. Once you bring that box home you would be able to sign up for service and get a CableCARD from your cable company to decrypt video. Only caveat is that your local cable company will flash their guide onto your box. Its nothing personal, its business. Don't want to use cable company guide, don't sign up for their service.
That would be so great, now my 14 days of programming and super simple search would be replaced with 7 days and I can search all I want as long as I don't want to enter in more than one character.
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Alex D. @ Jun 19th 2007 1:18PM
Michael, with OpenCable you would be able to walk in to Best Buy and buy a box from Tivo, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Motorola, SA, etc. That's the whole premise for the Separable Security Mandate by FCC and Congress. Once you bring that box home you would be able to sign up for service and get a CableCARD from your cable company to decrypt video. Only caveat is that your local cable company will flash their guide onto your box. Its nothing personal, its business. Don't want to use cable company guide, don't sign up for their service.
Ben @ Jun 19th 2007 1:19PM
That would be so great, now my 14 days of programming and super simple search would be replaced with 7 days and I can search all I want as long as I don't want to enter in more than one character.