http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/might as well turn my phon...there it is]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Mesa thinks this was enough to win the battle of Naboo.]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Enjoy the new e-mail :)]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Sorry to cause you to receive another Email, but you can just mark the Emails as spam and you shouldn't receive any more. (I've definitely made that mistake a few times myself.)

- AdamZ]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
I don't know about you, but I for one like receiving e-mails. It shows I'm important and someone still cares about my existence. :')]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Go to your commenter profile page; underneath the message you should see a box titled "Notify me when someone replies." untick it and you get no more email.]]>Aug 17th 2010 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
I beat that thing in one of my "Boss Battles" in Final Fantasy XIII!]]>Aug 17th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Yes, thank you. And only the named websites, I would have absolutely no reason to thank other, less legal sources. None at all.]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
The 8640HDC is worse, believe it or not:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1219141]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Motorola isn't much better. Duopoly at its worst. Luckily Panasonic, Arris, Samsung, TIVO, etc are starting to move into the OEM set top market. Things might get better. ]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Hell,I'd love Microsoft to get in the game. Maybe release one running Windows Media Centre software. That would be great. My SA 8300 from Rogers Cable in Canada has a terrible guide menu that looks like it was invented during the 1970s.]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/No issues with the TV. HDMI audio travels fine with my laptop connected, or my PlayStation 3 (although I just use my receiver anyway via Optical for my PS3). A lot of Rogers customers have this issue with audio HDMI, it's not just me.]]>Aug 17th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Of course it doesn't sound as condescending or witty when you say circa 2004 does it?]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
"You were lucky if you had a 60GB drive in 1998."

Damn lack of edit.

But what's Ben's excuse?]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/]]>Aug 16th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Doubtful. Cable Card is but only one way to consume TV. There are may others that make an HTPC still very much useful]]>Aug 17th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Oh come on, do you think Verizon has enough non-updated cableCARD tuners on the network to make them even care? This is a rather rarely used technology...]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
As of this year there are more than 3 million FiOS TV subscribers. If only a only a small percentage of them had custom tuners, and only a fraction of those are rendered useless now, that could still be thousands of people. If this update forces even some of them to switch to a FiOS DVR it'll be worth the money for them when they make $15 or $20 a month per DVR every month.]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Making a few assumptions, it's easy to extrapolate some numbers.

There are approximatly 106,000,000 households in the US.
Around 58% have cable, that gives us 61,480,000 households.

We know as of September 2009, only 443,000 CableCards had been deployed in customer owned equipment.

Given the number of households with cable and assuming only 1 card per household (which likely isn't true since many are S cards), Cablecard has a 0.7% industry wide market penetration.

Given 3mil FIOS tv subscribers and assuming that cablecard usage is around the same as the industry average, that translates to only 21,000 households using cable cards on FIOS.

From here, we can't make any more assumptions. However, we do know that the most popular CableCard device (TiVo) has no issues with this.

But lets assume for the sake of argument that ALL of those users were affected. 21,000 users shifting to a Verizon DVR would net Verizon around $314k in subscriber fees per year (and this is throwing out the fact that these STBs aren't free for Verizon.)

That is, without a doubt, one of the lousiest money making schemes I've ever heard considering it probably cost them millions to even implement Simulcrypt on their networks.]]>Aug 17th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
I do wish FIOS had 100% CableCard support though. I'd have built an HTPC by now if it did.]]>Aug 17th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/You failed to add the following to your argument:

-that most cable subscribers rent multiple STBs.
-that VZ will see thousands in increased profits from internal VOD
-SimulyCript allows VZ to pocket the savings of increased STB competition

I’m not saying that VZ made this change exclusively to increase profits, but to say that it did’nt have a part would be wrong.
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My point still stands. It's not some conspiracy theory, it's business. Money adds up and every dollar counts. Simple as that.]]>Aug 17th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Right, I can see my bill going down already.]]>Aug 16th 2010 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 16th 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
The "it's" should be "its." It doesn't use an apostrophe for the possessive. Right now, the article reads "updates for it is devices"!]]>Aug 17th 2010 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/
Replace it with what?!?! It's obscene that they are encrypting channels at all. Why they don't send all non premium channels in clear QAM, why the FCC doesn't require this as they had with 'cable ready' before the digital change over, is beyond me.

As it is I'm stuck paying for three HD boxes so i can record three channels at a time on my sage TV system. It works perfectly, but the idea that I have to pay $30 a month to build my own DVR is criminal.]]>Aug 17th 2010 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.cetoncorp.com/]]>Aug 17th 2010 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-fios-simulcrypt-rollout-will-break-most-cablecard-tuners/Aug 17th 2010 9:22AM