Depends entirely on your cable company. I have two TivoHDs with cablecards on FIOS, and (thus far, knocking on wood), I've yet to see them mark anything as non-copyable.
Echostar has to fix this -- whether they work out a license deal with Tivo, get an injunction, or find another fix doesn't make any difference.
I'm an Dish subscriber first and foremost because up until recently (and the jury is still out on recent products from other vendors) they had the best of several not-terribly-good choices for an HD PVR. The day my 942 stops working however, I'll be signing up for one of either DirecTV's or Verizon/FIOS TV's new HD PVRs (I've had FIOS internet for nearly a year).
Frankly, when it comes down to it as a company I like Dish better than any of their competitors, but I don't like them well enough to lose HD PVR capability.
I doubt I'm their only customer that feels this way...
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Depends entirely on your cable company. I have two TivoHDs with cablecards on FIOS, and (thus far, knocking on wood), I've yet to see them mark anything as non-copyable.
Echostar has to fix this -- whether they work out a license deal with Tivo, get an injunction, or find another fix doesn't make any difference.
I'm an Dish subscriber first and foremost because up until recently (and the jury is still out on recent products from other vendors) they had the best of several not-terribly-good choices for an HD PVR. The day my 942 stops working however, I'll be signing up for one of either DirecTV's or Verizon/FIOS TV's new HD PVRs (I've had FIOS internet for nearly a year).
Frankly, when it comes down to it as a company I like Dish better than any of their competitors, but I don't like them well enough to lose HD PVR capability.
I doubt I'm their only customer that feels this way...
For the same reason you still dial a number on your cellphone...