http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/ Engadget HD Comments for Comcast sues the FCC for forcing them to play fair http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 2nd 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/
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I've never really noticed till recently how realistically pro-consumer (and overtly so) the FCC is (or has become). It's pretty awesome.]]>Nov 2nd 2007 10:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 3rd 2007 9:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 2nd 2007 10:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 2nd 2007 11:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 3rd 2007 12:50PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Does this mean that I can get an M-card from Comcast to use in my TiVo Series 3 in place of the two Cable Cards, one of which they charge me $4.95 or so each month?
Thanks for the clarification.
-Hugh (from the iPhone line)]]>Nov 4th 2007 9:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/
That said, now do you economists see one of the biggest problems with economies of scale? You can't keep up with new technology if every change requires you to spend a gazillion dollars to retrofit your whole system. That's a real problem considering what Ray Kurzweil is talking about in his new book "The Singularity is Near."

The best thing the FCC could do is force the breakup of Comcast. They are every bit as pervasive in cable TV as AT&T was in the phone biz in 1985. If they don't break them up, this country's cable TV infrastructure will never progress, and the rest of the world will pass us by like we were standing still.]]>Nov 5th 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Nov 6th 2007 9:56AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/02/comcast-sues-the-fcc-for-forcing-them-to-play-fair/Does this mean that I can get an M-card from Comcast to use in my TiVo Series 3 in place of the two Cable Cards, one of which they charge me $4.95 or so each month?
Thanks for the clarification.
-Hugh (from the iPhone line)"

The Series3 will accept an M-Card but will only use it to decrypt 1 stream. So you'd need 2 M-Cards still.

The TiVoHD can use a single M-Card to decode TWO streams.

Hopefully a Series3 software upgrade will allow the same functionality shortly.]]>Nov 6th 2007 3:16PM