Of course they could accomplish this all with a dongle, but now I'll have to find more shelf space to set this thing somewhere. I mean, look at the thing. They barfed 2-3 different design themes into a single bizarre shape. CableLabs is the only organization I know of that purposefully puts out bad products that they don't want their customers to ever use.
I couldn't agree more. Granted I don't know a hell of a lot about this device or SDV in general but if this is just a USB dongle and communications are still going to utilize the coaxial cable, why can this not be accomplished via a software/firmware update from TiVo? I know they may be provider specific but TiVo already knows who your provider is.
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CapNJunkie @ Feb 8th 2008 12:44PM
OK.. show of hands. How many HDTV owners have a "Top" on their "Set" big enough to put all these freakin' "Set Top Boxes"?
Wasn't that one of the points with cablecards? Get rid of all the stupid boxes?
So here we have a solution to your incompatible set top "box-less-ness"... a set top box !
Lumpmoose @ Feb 8th 2008 1:07PM
Of course they could accomplish this all with a dongle, but now I'll have to find more shelf space to set this thing somewhere. I mean, look at the thing. They barfed 2-3 different design themes into a single bizarre shape. CableLabs is the only organization I know of that purposefully puts out bad products that they don't want their customers to ever use.
justint @ Feb 8th 2008 4:18PM
I couldn't agree more. Granted I don't know a hell of a lot about this device or SDV in general but if this is just a USB dongle and communications are still going to utilize the coaxial cable, why can this not be accomplished via a software/firmware update from TiVo? I know they may be provider specific but TiVo already knows who your provider is.