Tag Archives: SDV

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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PC Magazine’s Dan Costa’s Advice To TiVo

Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 by MegaZone

PC Magazine’s Dan Costa has written an article entitled ‘TiVo Is Not Dead Yet’, in which he expresses his opinion that despite ‘conventional wisdom’ that has seem a lot of people chime in with doom and gloom predictions for TiVo’s … 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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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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TiVo Developing Standalone OCAP/Tru2Way Box

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by MegaZone

I just mentioned this in my post on their financial results, but I feel this is big enough news to call out in its own post. TiVo is developing a new standalone box that will natively support Tru2Way, formerly known … Continue reading →

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