[opendtv] Re: News: The Real Fight Over Fake News
- From: "Adam Goldberg" <adam_g@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:51:48 -0400
> Actually, almost all, perhaps all, new DTVs do in fact have cable tuners
> (and demods and decoders). I don't know of any that do not.
I don't know where you're getting your information (please tell me, off-list
if you need to), because to my knowledge, no one has been able to accurately
compile any such statistic. Anecdotally, many DTVs do have clear QAM tuning
capability (and any one-way CableCARD sets are required to have it), but
there are similarly many that do not have. There is no industry reporting
of this information (the capability of clear QAM reception on non-CableCARD
sets or lack thereof).
There's a danger of putting too much emphasis on the Sony announcement. You
should recall that about 18 months after the one-way CableCARD deal was
announced, nearly all DTVs had that capability. Subsequently, it was found
that there wasn't coincident consumer demand for that feature (at the cost
differential), and now there are few sets (and no new designs) with it.
We're somewhere between 6-18 months before real availability of two-way
CableCARD sets. We'll only know a few years from now whether there was
coincident consumer demand for the feature (at the cost differential) or
not.
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: The Real Fight Over Fake News
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> It boils down to opportunity costs for the spectrum currently
> dedicated to the analog tiers. IF they can make enough ADDITIONAL
> money re-assigning that spectrum to digital cable and broadband
> services, THEN they will shut down the analog tiers and deploy
> various solutions for those who do not have digital tuners:
Right. And it appears that they are doing so.
> Keep in minds that hardly ANY of the HD capable TVs shipped to
> date have digital cable tuners in them. Only a tiny percentage
> have one-way cable cards, and virtually none have two-way cable
> cards.
Actually, almost all, perhaps all, new DTVs do in fact have cable tuners
(and demods and decoders). I don't know of any that do not.
What they don't often have, until now, is CableCard. So the digital
cable programs they can decode are only the unencrypted variety. In this
market, that means all channels, including HD, that are available OTA
are available unencrypted over cable.
Lack of CableCard support is probably due almost entirely to consumers
marching in lock step to the tune of the cable companies. But that will
likely change, with this new agreement between Sony and all the major
cable companies.
Bert
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