OT: DirecTivo vs. 'New Direct TV DVR'?

[Thomas Charron]

On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> wrote:
> > S3 will probably work with DirecTV with an IR blaster, but you won't
> > get HD. Similar to the older SA TiVos
>  The S3 has two CableCard slots and works fine with digital cable,
> including high def.  However, satellite TV is not as heavily regulated
> as cable TV, so the satellite industry does not support CableCard.
> (All the "TV delivery" companies generally sees interoperability as a
> threat.  They want to lock you into their box.  The FCC is presently
> forcing cable TV to enable some interoperability.  Satellite is more
> of a free market.)

  *supposedly* DirecTV is working with Micro$oft on a CableCard card
for use with Vista Media Center.  Of course, they where also working
with Microsoft on the DirecTV Media Center, which has seemingly fallen
apart considering they have released no update on the vaporware media
center in over a year and a half.

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-- Thomas