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An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC

Posted by timothy on from the so-I-can-be-both-ahead-of-and-behind-my-time dept.

Talinom writes "AnandTech has a writeup on how ClearQAM appears to be headed for an early death. From the article — 'At this point there's no reason to believe that cable companies won't deploy Privacy Mode across their networks, so it's a matter of 'when,' not 'if' this will happen. It goes without saying that if you're currently enjoying the use of a ClearQAM tuner to receive EB tier channels, you'll want to enjoy what time you have left, and look in to other solutions for the long-haul. At this pace, it looks like cable TV and computers will soon be divorcing.'" Update: 08/27 23:59 GMT by T : "EB" here stands for "Expanded Basic (cable service)"; Wikipedia as usual has a time-sucking, digressive, fascinating explanation about the tiers of cable TV service in the US.

2 of 345 comments (clear)

  1. Re:HOW SMALL IS IT?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You give him too much credit. The girl on the other side of the glory hole thought she was looking at a pussy.

  2. Re:Death to America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Getting off topic, but I've got to comment on your sig (cite?):

    3% == Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered. 86% == Number happy with what they've got (TIME Aug 10)

    So 3% is an acceptable loss? If many of these uninsured Americans should die as a consequence of not having good access to medical care, you're cool with that? 3% is over 9 million of my countrymen. You aren't related to Mohamed Atta, are you?