A poster at AVSForum who works for Sharp said that the Japanese and Korean manufacturers aren't inclined to include CC 1.0 support, and aren't sold yet on CC 2.0.
CC is a US cable company technology, for which the foreign manufacturers have to pay licensing royalties. This drives up cost. The manufacturers are in a heated price war right now, and are trying to trim all the fat that they can. From their perspective, CC 1.0 was a still-born technology. Very few consumers wanted it, the cable companies were not very cooperative in making it cheap (since they were essentially forced to create it by the government), and the inclusion invariably made the product more expensive.
I'm a DVR user myself, so I will never want a TV with cable card support. Now, Tivo's Series3... that's another thing entirely...
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A poster at AVSForum who works for Sharp said that the Japanese and Korean manufacturers aren't inclined to include CC 1.0 support, and aren't sold yet on CC 2.0.
CC is a US cable company technology, for which the foreign manufacturers have to pay licensing royalties. This drives up cost. The manufacturers are in a heated price war right now, and are trying to trim all the fat that they can. From their perspective, CC 1.0 was a still-born technology. Very few consumers wanted it, the cable companies were not very cooperative in making it cheap (since they were essentially forced to create it by the government), and the inclusion invariably made the product more expensive.
I'm a DVR user myself, so I will never want a TV with cable card support. Now, Tivo's Series3... that's another thing entirely...