Tag Archives: CableLabs

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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CableLabs Ready To Test Tuning Resolver, TiVo Owners Await SDV Support

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2008 by MegaZone

Switched Digital Video (SDV) has been the bane of CableCARD users, notably owners of the TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD. SDV channels cannot be tuned by UDCP (unidirectional digital cable products) CableCARD devices, such as TiVo, as SDV requires bidirectional … Continue reading →

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What’s In A Name? OCAP OpenCable Platform Tru2Way?

Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 by MegaZone

This feels like something out of Idiocracy. I guess CableLabs has decided that their current names don’t have that Web 2.0 zing, or something like that. What started out as the OpenCable Applications Platform, or OCAP, was renamed as just … Continue reading →

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