Tom Barry wrote: > Also an increasing number of new TV's sold are now digital > cable ready, at least for unencrypted QAM. And probably > many more will come out with the 2 way integrated non-cable > card thing, whatever that new standard is called that Sony > recently has been trumpeting. Adam Goldberg wrote: > The non-CableCARD thing is called DCAS. The new thing Sony > has been "trumpeting" is either called OCAP or tru2way. > Either way, they're different. And DCAS is apparently > dead (as reported in Communications Technology mag on June > 1). > > I wouldn't say that an "increasing number of new TVs sold > are now digital cable ready". It's probably better to say > that a diminishing number of TV models are digital cable > ready. (Trend is DOWN not UP) Actually, what Tom said is, I think, very true: "Also an increasing number of new TV's sold are now digital cable ready, >>>at least for unencrypted QAM.<<<" (I added the emphasis) He's talking about sets that you can plug into cable systems and, just like their NTSC forebears, receive basic, unencrypted cable programming, sans cable STB. It turns out that even my 2004-vintage Accurian box had a cable TUNER in it, although no QAM demod. It was only good for those cable systems that pipe through 8T-VSB, as some did (maybe still do). You can set it to tune to all the cable frequency channels. As far as I can tell, it's mostly only the CECBs now that cannot receive unencrypted QAM. For example, the January 2007 Samsung HDTV STB is fully capable of receiving basic, unencypted cable. So are Sony TVs, Samsung, Philips/Magnavox, LG, ... Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.