I think TiVo's arms were tied since they probably had something ready to go for CableCARD 1.0. But then the playing field changed...and it was back to the drawing board for them.
Also, remember that it was recently that the FCC mandated CableCARD acceptance, and that was for 2.0, which wasn't even standardized yet at the time of the announcement.
So essentially, TiVo had to wait out for a lot of other "stars to align" to get the ball rolling on their S3 box.
I'm sure they wanted to be a STB replacement, and not an enhancement.
Now, I've read that you won't be able to do VOD with the S3? I thought the CableCARD spec supported everything a STB does, albeit in the space of a card.
That doesn't sound right. I want a S3 to REPLACE my crappy DCT6412; I don't want that thing anywhere in sight when I bring my S3 home. AND I want VOD.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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I think TiVo's arms were tied since they probably had something ready to go for CableCARD 1.0. But then the playing field changed...and it was back to the drawing board for them.
Also, remember that it was recently that the FCC mandated CableCARD acceptance, and that was for 2.0, which wasn't even standardized yet at the time of the announcement.
So essentially, TiVo had to wait out for a lot of other "stars to align" to get the ball rolling on their S3 box.
I'm sure they wanted to be a STB replacement, and not an enhancement.
Now, I've read that you won't be able to do VOD with the S3? I thought the CableCARD spec supported everything a STB does, albeit in the space of a card.
That doesn't sound right. I want a S3 to REPLACE my crappy DCT6412; I don't want that thing anywhere in sight when I bring my S3 home. AND I want VOD.