http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/ Engadget Comments for Sony, TiVo, NCTA and others chime in on CableCARD's replacement http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Allow this thing to be accessable to any hobbyist or garage developer with any interest and the "joe sixpack" problem will be solved by 3rd party device vendors. Microsoft, Tivo and even the Linux community will happily step up with suitable devices and software that hides all of the rough edges.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Show the average Joe Windows Media Center + an Xbox 360 and I think he'll get it.]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/as much as i love psn the ps video store, itunes and possibly xbl (not sure exactly but probably) are all horrible
i love how if you play it even once there is a 24-hour limit until the video is expired and you can not play again, but yet if not played at all it lasts for a week, that is pathetic!!
why could it not be just the full week?
how the hell does it harm them!?
and this is why i think most of the video on demand blows!
i only care about hulu if you can watch it on the consoles for free, the $10 service sounds nice but i dont need that stuff right now]]>Jul 16th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Someone wanna hurry up with something new other than CableCard so I don't have to spend an arm and a leg to watch TV? I've already invested too much to get ripped off by Comcast.]]>Jul 16th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
DVR software is horrible, appealing to the lowest common denominator firstly and to enthusiast secondly or not at all. I choose a Media Center for all it can do and more, not for ease of installation. I have to use S-video for input from the Direct TV box, weak sauce. That's just one example of making a compromise work but I would love for Direct TV to come out with its USB Tuner for PC's. There is still a desire to have Media PC's because setup boxes don't do enough and limited storage and it doesn't centralize your Media.

RIAA is typical in worrying about 19th Century business model in the 21st Century and can afford to spend 16 Million to lawyer up, so they can't be "THAT" broke.
]]>Jul 17th 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Ladies and Gents. I hold in my hand the iPhone 4s.
Everybody-hmm, yeah.
Jobs-Now the S doesn't just stand for speed. It stands for Signal, good signal 360 degrees. you will pick up service even it at&t denies it.
Verizon Ceo-ugg, men call Sprint, I want them 2 own t-mobile and make them cdma.
Everybody-OMG, YEAH
Random Guy- I LOVE YOU STEVE
Steve-Now you heard the guys at Redmond, WA calling the iphone 4 our vista. Haha, I think they forgot that the windows vista mobile style is the Windows itself. I introduce you guys the kin, a windows phone 7.
Rep-They don't make them anymore!
Steve-oh i forgot. HAHAHA

THEN ALL THE Hoopla BEGINS when Steve Ballmer walks in and curse jobs out saying that he will die and the apple brand. We will brag money in developers faces to make games and app for us only leaving you, APPLE! and Sony, and Android and everybody out of the picture. HAHAHA.
Steve-Men would you take him out please.... sorry you guys over that. well that is all I have to announce, it will come out aug 1st. Thank you.
Everybody-YEAH!!!!!!!!
Random Guy-I LUV YOU STEVE!
Aug 7th...
Reports are in the iphone 4 is out the iPhone 4s is hot selling 1.6 million in the first week.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Steve- I introduce you to the Ipads, now s stands for Stuff.
More stuff is being added to the ipad such as Cable Cards.
Everybody-OMG, I LUV YOU!]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Your picture should be yourself holding a sign saying "Troll"]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/How am i beginning a troll?]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Beginning by having no irrelevant post logic to near article. Potato.]]>Jul 15th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
"... since Congress past a law..."

Since when is it hard to distinguish between "past" and "passed"?

Get some editors, people!]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Funny, I came here to politely make Ben aware of the probably 4-5 spelling/grammar issues politely. Way to be a grumpy Internet text box Mike!

@Ben

Thanks for writing this up man! This is exactly why I love Engadget- it's a pretty huge, complex argument and you guys break it down and sum it up nicely. Much appreciated!]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Damn. I wish my wife would be up for ditching cable. I've done a few proposals and there is always some new requirement I didn't meet. She really likes crap on HGTV, TLC, Discovery, Food, and Bravo. I know I could probably torrent the episodes, I just want to stay away from legal trouble for now.


In regards to the article, I am for the gateway idea. I haven't been quite satisfied with DLNA on my PS3, but it might be that what I'm trying to do with DLNA, it wasn't designed for nor am I using its full functionality. i think the requirement to have a STB is absurd. ]]>Jul 16th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
@perpetual98 Yup I grew up in a town of 2000 people too, and remember being sooo jealous of people that actually could use Compuserve without dialing long distance. The price you pay for living in a rural area. Now I grew up, moved out, and been on FiOS for 3 years, with wired gigabit Ethernet in my apartment :) Oh and I go to visit the countryside once a year or so lol.]]>Jul 16th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 17th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Yes, I know I'm daydreaming...]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
They LOVE the current system precisely because it's a HUGE failure.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
They are desperately trying to cling to the status quo and so blindered that they don't notice the comet and super extinction event that's headed their way.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Exactly. Everyone is familiar with the Internet now and by extension want to be able to access all their media as interactively as they access media on the web. The cable companies can either resign themselves to being dumb pipes while letting others create usable interfaces for their content or they will die of when alternate content begins catching on specifically because it allows itself to be accessed freely. ]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
I switched to Uverse and it is hands down the best. IPTV is the way to go.]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/And my cable company has a box in my living room that I would have failed any project for a real-time systems class for. An entry level class.
They cable companies should not even be allowed at the table anymore.
They are Fail and Suck and both are Hard.]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Demo netflix streaming to show how your receiver can make 2 channel audio into 7.1.

]]>Jul 15th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
This wouldn't go in your living room, it'd go on your home network like a cable modem. In fact many expect it to replace the cable modem completely.]]>Jul 16th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 15th 2010 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Wow thanks, that is one of the best compliments I've ever received on my work. It is nice when someone appreciate the amount of time and effort that goes into a post like this and the approves of the outcome. Thanks.
Ben]]>Jul 16th 2010 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
RVU is still in development, the first consumer device hasn't made it to market yet though.]]>Jul 16th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/1.They want to control the UI for cable services such as video on demand, program guides, pay-per-view instead of allowing the device vendor to render the UI the way the device vendor wants.
2.They want clear separation between "cable" content (i.e. that provided by the cable company) and "cloud" content (such as Netflix, YouTube etc) instead of "cable" content such as pay-per-view and video on demand simply being another icon next to the YouTube and Netflix icons.
3.They want control over consumer devices to ensure that they can enforce broadcast flags, ban the ability to easily copy the data after you record it, eliminate commercial skipping etc.
]]>Jul 16th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/
Personally, I'm in favor of an ip based implementation. Anything that makes the providers dumb pipes to the internet/content cloud is something I favor.]]>Jul 16th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/sony-tivo-ncta-and-others-chime-in-on-cablecards-replacement/Jul 16th 2010 1:19PM