There ya go! Just use Comcast's search feature to look for cablecard. Takes about a minute.
I understand everybody wants things now, in this day and age of on demand service. Unfortuneatly the cable industry is large and large orginzations take a while to get things through committees. At least they are taking the intitiative this time instead of being forced into it by the government as in cablecard.
Speaking as someone who works for the cable industry, this is a dollar short and a day late. The cable industry has already taken steps to increase competition in the cable box marketplace.
http://www.opencable.com/
The Opencable platform is going to be the next generation of the cablecard technology (which already suits his needs btw). Cablecard was created to allow cable subscribers access to the digital channels on their own devices. Basically cablecard is a hardware secuirty token that allows access to the cable network. Opencable takes this a step further by defining the schema for interactive, two way services. This means that not only will you be able to access the cable channels (like cablecard) you will soon be able to access VOD and other "interactive" services from any device that supports this open standard.
This is just another frivilous lawsuit brought about by somebody who is totally ignorant of what they are suing over. I hope this guy spends thousands of dollars only to find this out. Next time he should turn to Google before he turns to his lawyer.
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http://www.comcast.com/customers/faq/FaqDetails.ashx?ID=2651&fss=cablecard
There ya go! Just use Comcast's search feature to look for cablecard. Takes about a minute.
I understand everybody wants things now, in this day and age of on demand service. Unfortuneatly the cable industry is large and large orginzations take a while to get things through committees. At least they are taking the intitiative this time instead of being forced into it by the government as in cablecard.
Speaking as someone who works for the cable industry, this is a dollar short and a day late. The cable industry has already taken steps to increase competition in the cable box marketplace. http://www.opencable.com/ The Opencable platform is going to be the next generation of the cablecard technology (which already suits his needs btw). Cablecard was created to allow cable subscribers access to the digital channels on their own devices. Basically cablecard is a hardware secuirty token that allows access to the cable network. Opencable takes this a step further by defining the schema for interactive, two way services. This means that not only will you be able to access the cable channels (like cablecard) you will soon be able to access VOD and other "interactive" services from any device that supports this open standard. This is just another frivilous lawsuit brought about by somebody who is totally ignorant of what they are suing over. I hope this guy spends thousands of dollars only to find this out. Next time he should turn to Google before he turns to his lawyer.