Last week at Cable-Tec, the cable television industry's technical tradeshow, Panasonic showed off TVs and set-top boxes featuring tru2way support. Introduced last year, tru2way is an add-on to CableCard, a technology which enables the decryption of digital (QAM) signals from US cable television operators.
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The cable companies fought cable card kicking and screaming, only allowing it in return for extremely unfair DRM standards. They then charge a heavy monthly fee just to rent one of the cards, and do not offer any means of buying one. It is hardly a suprise that the cable companies are not adopting this...there are no agreements forcing them to do so.
Somehow I don't see $1.75 per month for cable card rental a "heavy monthly fee". I can't wait to hear all the complaints about cable TV service after Tivo, TV manufacturer's, PC (Apple included)companies, etc all say "...oh no, your equipment is fine. It's the cable signal...call them" LMAO already.
Originally posted by 12welve: Somehow I don't see $1.75 per month for cable card rental a "heavy monthly fee". I can't wait to hear all the complaints about cable TV service after Tivo, TV manufacturer's, PC (Apple included)companies, etc all say "...oh no, your equipment is fine. It's the cable signal...call them" LMAO already.
My cable company wants $15 per month for the card. Not only that, but the DRM standards I mentioned prevent me from using the card with anything but a super-low-end-yet-very-expensive OEM system. I found these two facts out on the same day that I canceled my cable TV service...and I'm not turning it back on untill they get their s*** together, and get their d*** out of the collective ***hole of all their customers...I don't think I will have cable TV for a very long time.
