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
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-- Thomas
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