Comments on: Where’s the SDV Tuning Resolver?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:44:01 +0000

Mot’s has just cleared CableLabs, and Mari now says it is expected in Q4 (i.e. could be as late as Dec 31). I’ll note that this is a good six months after the promised Q208 that was originally discussed. All of that “wow, I can’t believe they are doing this so fast” stuff was just wishfull thinking obviously.

If they don’t roll it out instantly in massive volumes with all cable operators at once, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can’t get one for another six months or more after that date either…

This is sucking…

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:47:27 +0000

… as for me, I am about ready to move on to publicly harrassing TiVo and others about the copy/transfer flag thing…

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:45:59 +0000

Well, I suppose they could raise the cableCARD fee a bit.

BTW, I just added an “Open Cable” tag to blog posts going back to late 2006 in case people want to go over some historical thinking on the issue now that its a catchy topic.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:57:19 +0000

hdtivo, I’ve also heard the Tuning Resolver will be provided “free,” bundled into/with any CableCARD lease fees. (My 3 CableCARDs incur no fees.)

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:18:17 +0000

Glenn, I responded to the comment you left at GL over here.

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:02:38 +0000

Now if you look at all that has happend, its going to cost the cable cos. a lot to offer this TR.

It has been said the TR will be offered free of charge…but how solid that is I don�t know.

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:58:56 +0000

… further the DVRs having two key issues…

1) until recently there being no way close to being able to make a DVR that recorded HD component or HDMI,

and

2) dual tuner being the current DVR standard

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:55:38 +0000

My view quite a long time ago was that the whole one-way thing should have been halted, and “buy-outs” of the existing couple hundred thousand CC users arranged…which would have been chump change.

In conjunction, @$$ should have been kicked to get the two-way done.

All this would have been before there were more than a few thousand CC DVR owners. Its the DVR owners that are significant because this is really where the $$ investment is and where the STB is not the solution – the STB being essentially a tuning adapter for the last like 40yrs for TVs.