DTV issues

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:28:08 -0500, Sid Schweiger <sid@wrko.com> said:

> Since the CableCard standard turned out to be a monumental flop,
> when your cable system decides to abandon analog, you'll need to put
> a cable box in front of every TV and recording device you have.

Kinda hard to describe it as a "flop" when there's one in every cable
box.  The widest support for them, for non-cableco-supplied equipment,
is from TiVo.  The new "tru2way" branding, which got a big promotional
push at this year's CES but saw very limited adoption from the
manufacturers, is nothing more than CableCARD 2.0 with OCAP.

Panasonic has a couple of "tru2way" branded receivers out now, but
they're only available in Chicago and Denver right now.

-GAWollman