Series 3 HD with dual cable card....
http://engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/
http://engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/
No. That series 3 will only work with cable and antenna.Billy Bob Boy said:Will it work with D*? Will it give you dual tuners with D* If you have 2 sat recievers. Or will it only work with cable?
Do you know something we don't?Dan Collins said:Personally, a CableCard interface for a DirecTV tuner device would seem to me to be a no-brainer, once CableCard starts to catch on. It will become a competitive requirement.
Umm, how are you going to use any DTV receiver with the Series 3, since there's no IR or serial support to control the DTV box?Dan Collins said:The Series 3 has 2 cable ready NTSC (analog) tuners, 2 ATSC (digital/HD OTA) tuners, and space for 2 single stream (v1.1), or 1 multistream (v2.0), CableCard. Theoretically, you could use SD DirecTV receivers with the NTSC tuners, but the quality would be compromised.
I believe that Dan was saying that once the cable industry adopts the CableCard, then the old hard-wired set-top boxes will likely disappear and only CableCard devices will exist.tfederov said:Do you know something we don't?![]()
Do you know Earl, if the CableCard 2.0 specification will allow PPV, PPV OnDemand, and bundled (FREE) OnDemand selections? If it doesn't then the cable industry doesn't understand what is at stake, and CableCards will be almost worthless.ebonovic said:CableCard (the concept) is about 15 years over due.
Once we had "cable ready" devices, the cable-card should have started then....
But of course the Cable-Co's wanted the easy money stream from the rental and sale of the boxes...
And they still do... Hence why we are probably seeing the dragging of the 2.0 standard.
As once that is out, they can kiss their rental/sales good by for the set-top boxes pretty much for ever.
I would think there would be potentionally a higher profit margin on CC's. Once you start mass producing them CC's would be cheaper to make than a STB. The only STB's have going for them is that they have been around so long that the circuity is dirt cheap to make. But a CC does not need a large box to house it, power supplies, user interface ..., just decode signal and provide 2 way com path for advanced features (VOD, PPV etc.).ebonovic said:CableCard (the concept) is about 15 years over due.
Once we had "cable ready" devices, the cable-card should have started then....
But of course the Cable-Co's wanted the easy money stream from the rental and sale of the boxes...
And they still do... Hence why we are probably seeing the dragging of the 2.0 standard.
As once that is out, they can kiss their rental/sales good by for the set-top boxes pretty much for ever.