Cable's bandwidth quagmire

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Batard @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:36AM

Nielsen says consumers can't get enough of HD -yet:

http://www.cable360.net/competition/dbs/25933.html

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Or, they could use Switched Digital Video to save bandwidth on the digital tiers, which is what they're doing.

The article says "they have to support CableCARDs and the hardware for OCAP". You're somewhat right, CableCARD is an FCC requirement but OCAP is not required by law.

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