They almost completly missed the point. It was features that Cablecard was missing, but MSO's don't care about on screen guides. There is NO potential for additional income, meaning no PPV. Even if the cable companies made more money from renting cable cards, which I think they would of if you include all the overhead of STBs it wouldn't make up for the loss revenue from PPV. PPV and VOD is what the cable companies think is their ace in the hole when competing with Dish and Directv and there is no way they are going to give it up peacefully.
The worst part of the entire thing is that it has caused such a long delay in a Stand alone HD TiVo. Why would TiVo or anyone else want to release a Cablecard 1.0 device when Cable Companies refuse to support them?
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They almost completly missed the point. It was features that Cablecard was missing, but MSO's don't care about on screen guides. There is NO potential for additional income, meaning no PPV. Even if the cable companies made more money from renting cable cards, which I think they would of if you include all the overhead of STBs it wouldn't make up for the loss revenue from PPV. PPV and VOD is what the cable companies think is their ace in the hole when competing with Dish and Directv and there is no way they are going to give it up peacefully.
The worst part of the entire thing is that it has caused such a long delay in a Stand alone HD TiVo. Why would TiVo or anyone else want to release a Cablecard 1.0 device when Cable Companies refuse to support them?