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

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue May 22 13:40:08 EDT 2007


On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  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.

  Found the source of this, but as I said, nothing in the 16 months
since the partnership announcement.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jan06/01-05WMDIRECTVPR.mspx

-- 
-- Thomas


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