The in force folks at CableLabs replied to today ’s piece of music aboutCableCard customers getting make love out of HD distribution channel . To their acknowledgment , they did not ask for a chastening , because we did n’t print anything inaccurate ( though they do take the HD Guru may have ) . They just wanted us to regard some “ clarifications , ” arguments that go far to highlight the tension ( hate surround on fierceness ? ) that exists between Big Cable and the consumer - electronics companies . The light reading : overseas telegram content is always changing , two - way CableCard exists in possibility if not at Best Buy , the dongle could work on anything with a USB port and upgradeable firmware , and , oh yeah , you ’ll probably be buying all - new gear before this matter bobble over . spring for a more spelled out — but still extract — version of CableLabs ’ rebuttal argument :
https://gizmodo.com/cablecard-users-are-getting-screwed-out-of-hd-channels-380949
• “ Content available on cable networks is changing all the time . New serve are bring , some are redesign and others are remove . ”
• “ SDV engineering is designed to expand the kitchen stove of service propose by cable wheeler dealer , not reduce them . ”
• “ Many CE company choose to implement pass receiver that miss the necessary circuitry to provide a full two - way cable experience with the CableCard . ”
• “ No product was ever originally designed to work with this newfangled Tuning Adaptor including the subsist Tivo UDPC product … Since consumer products do n’t use Microsoft Windows , they do n’t have jade - in driver . alternatively a new microcode update is needed to admit the necessary equipment driver controls to interact with this new external equipment . Makers of any subsist UDCPs that already have a USB port ( there are many ) are just as able to supply new microcode as Tivo , if they chose to do so . ”
• “ Consumers should look for product identified astru2wayto ensure they will be able to get all the new and advanced services their digital cable’s length systems can fork up . ”
Last we checked , Panasonic was the only one witha tru2way TV pegged to an actual shipdate , and Comcast was the only line troupe even talk about enforce it this year , but again , hopefully we ’ll find out a batch more about this come theNCTA ’s Cable Showon May 18 - 20 . We certainly look forward to hearing good news from CableLabs ( and we ’re certain they await forward to sharing some ) . [ CableLabs;Original HD Guru Story ]
https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-kills-rear-projection-promises-2-way-cableca-366422
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