CableCARDs and HDTV

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Posted by michael on Sunday May 2, 2004 @05:57AM from the widescreen-but-still-schlock dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "HDTV is the next big thing. I attended the NAB conference in Las Vegas last week and everyone was pitching HDTV or asking about it. DesignTechnica has an interesting article on CableCARDS, which allows viewing HDTV through a CableCARD compatible HDTV set without needing a set top box. Cable companies are required to enable CableCARDs with card-compatible HDTVs by July 1, 2004. So here's some questions: Has anyone heard of CableCARD? Is anyone planning on buying a CableCARD compatible TV? How many people actually get HDTV in their area, and how many channels? HDTV is so hyped right now but seems that there is barely any deployment."

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Obviously... by AntiPasto · 2004-05-02 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny

... if you had never heard of it and you read /. ... its probably nothing ;p
Err? by maan · 2004-05-02 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

The cable operators include Adelphia, Bright House, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Insight, Mediacom, and Time Warner (or as it was known until recently, AOL Time Warner, bwahahaha!). Comcast was missing from the list for reasons not fully explained at the press conference.
Err? What I missing here? Proofreading is so underrated...

Maan
1. Re:Err? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-02 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What I missing here?
  
  you are missing the word "am" between "What" and "I".
I have one by nil5 · 2004-05-02 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny

A 114" HDTV to be precise. Doesn't everybody have one, or are you one of those welfare-receiving, MacDonalds eating East LA pieces of trash. Come out to the Cape sometime (that's Cape Cod, you ignorant baffoons), and I'll show it to you after we take a spin in my Aston Martin, you pathetic mendicant.
Re:The problem with HDTV right now... by br0ck · 2004-05-02 06:55 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought hockey games were basically just contact figure skating until I watched it on a friend's HD and saw that they actually play with a puck! I had no idea.
Re:The problem with HDTV right now... by Mr.+Piddle · 2004-05-02 09:53 · Score: 2, Funny

I would love to have an HDTV so I could see more detail in the films I watch.

Well, it depends. Certain categories of movies, while they are very very entertaining (and quite uplifting), when they look more real, are actually less appealing (eww, what are those...).

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