Comcast pisses me off.
08-07-2008, 08:23 AM
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Comcast pisses me off.
They are running somthing across the screen on the history channel that they are changing the station, and that starting in September you will need a digital set top box to view it. Along with some other channels.
We have one in the living room, but i watch tv on the computer.
I looked online, and saw the press release cited below.
The bastards are pawning off there digital set top boxes on us, so that when this comes out, they won't have a bunch of old tech sitting around.
And if i don't get one, i will have to watch all the good channels out in the living room
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-1_1-9845814-67.html
"The end of the cable set-top box? Yes, Comcast says
Posted by Zoë Slocum Post a Comment
Comcast, the United States' largest cable operator, says the set-top box's days are numbered.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, CEO Brian Roberts predicted in a keynote address that by the end of the year, "virtually the entire cable industry will support Tru2way," an "open cable" standard that would render the bulky boxes moot by directly integrating any U.S. cable provider's service with a variety of devices. Initial partners in the Tru2way endeavor include Motorola, TiVo, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, LG Electronics, Cisco Systems, and Sun Microsystems.
Roberts also showed off a device, unveiled on Monday, that Comcast has co-branded with another partner, Matsushita Electric Industrial unit Panasonic. The AnyPlay, which has an 8.5-inch display screen, can record up to 60 hours of video, and it plays DVDs and CDs. It is slated to begin selling in the United States later this year.
Although Comcast CEO Brian Roberts indicated earlier to Reuters that Tru2way marks a step toward an "open, national, and interoperable structure between cable companies," the Consumer Electronics Association has argued that Tru2way would not be the truly open system that the Federal Communications Commission wants because it would not be compatible with the technologies of noncable video suppliers.
Ahem, DirecTV and Verizon Fios? The "era of closed cable" may be coming to an end, as Roberts said, but the wars between providers of television, broadband, and telephone services are far from over.
Indeed, the AnyPlay device is designed to play and record shows from any U.S. cable operator's system--but not those of satellite providers.
We have one in the living room, but i watch tv on the computer.
I looked online, and saw the press release cited below.
The bastards are pawning off there digital set top boxes on us, so that when this comes out, they won't have a bunch of old tech sitting around.
And if i don't get one, i will have to watch all the good channels out in the living room
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-1_1-9845814-67.html
"The end of the cable set-top box? Yes, Comcast says
Posted by Zoë Slocum Post a Comment
Comcast, the United States' largest cable operator, says the set-top box's days are numbered.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, CEO Brian Roberts predicted in a keynote address that by the end of the year, "virtually the entire cable industry will support Tru2way," an "open cable" standard that would render the bulky boxes moot by directly integrating any U.S. cable provider's service with a variety of devices. Initial partners in the Tru2way endeavor include Motorola, TiVo, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, LG Electronics, Cisco Systems, and Sun Microsystems.
Roberts also showed off a device, unveiled on Monday, that Comcast has co-branded with another partner, Matsushita Electric Industrial unit Panasonic. The AnyPlay, which has an 8.5-inch display screen, can record up to 60 hours of video, and it plays DVDs and CDs. It is slated to begin selling in the United States later this year.
Although Comcast CEO Brian Roberts indicated earlier to Reuters that Tru2way marks a step toward an "open, national, and interoperable structure between cable companies," the Consumer Electronics Association has argued that Tru2way would not be the truly open system that the Federal Communications Commission wants because it would not be compatible with the technologies of noncable video suppliers.
Ahem, DirecTV and Verizon Fios? The "era of closed cable" may be coming to an end, as Roberts said, but the wars between providers of television, broadband, and telephone services are far from over.
Indeed, the AnyPlay device is designed to play and record shows from any U.S. cable operator's system--but not those of satellite providers.
08-07-2008, 04:56 PM
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They're doing this to free up bandwidth to give you other services.
All cable companies have been doing this ever since the switch to digital- you're just noticing it more now because it's getting into the bread and butter
Also the life of the set-top is far from over, theres going to have to be a phase in for this technology, hell set-tops using it will probably outnumber dedicated devices for quite some time...
Plus theres already a cable access standard out there, it just sucks, it's called cablecard and VOD and other interactives don't work with it... but you get all the channels.
All cable companies have been doing this ever since the switch to digital- you're just noticing it more now because it's getting into the bread and butter
Also the life of the set-top is far from over, theres going to have to be a phase in for this technology, hell set-tops using it will probably outnumber dedicated devices for quite some time...
Plus theres already a cable access standard out there, it just sucks, it's called cablecard and VOD and other interactives don't work with it... but you get all the channels.
08-07-2008, 05:23 PM
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