Category Archives: HDTV

New TV Series ‘Scarlet’ A Hoax

Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by MegaZone

Lately you have have been seeing promo spots for a new TV series Scarlet, which looked like some kind of spy thriller with a female lead, similar to Alias. I’d been catching the spots mainly as a promo inserted into … Continue reading →

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CableCARD, SDV, And The Tuning Resolver

Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 by MegaZone

Wow, in the past couple of days there has been an interesting flurry of online activity about CableCARD, Switched Digital Video (SDV), and the Tuning Resolver. HD GURU posted an ‘investigative report’ entitled “How The Cable Industry Plans to Cheat … Continue reading →

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Bright House Giveth, And Bright House Taketh Away – And Giveth Back

Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by MegaZone

Back in February Bright House cable decided to pull HD channels from their CableCARD customers. This, understandably, created a backlash of complaints from users, as there wasn’t a good reason for the loss of the channels. Bright House did it … Continue reading →

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CableCARD Deployments Break The 4 Million Mark

Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by MegaZone

As reported by Multichannel News, cable MSOs have deployed 4.18 million CableCARD-enabled STBs in the last nine months. 1.9 million of those have been deployed since the last industry report on December 26th. However, as of March 19th, only approximately … Continue reading →

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Panasonic To Ship Tru2Way-enabled VIERA HDTVs This Summer

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 by MegaZone

A couple of months ago at CES Panasonic was one of the vendors showing off Tru2way, nee OCAP, products. At the time I focused on their ‘portable DVR‘, which I still think is a poor idea. But what I didn’t … Continue reading →

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