http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/ Engadget HD Comments for The Time Warner Staten Island Project = loads of HD http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/Apr 23rd 2007 1:39PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/Apr 23rd 2007 11:50AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/Apr 23rd 2007 1:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/This little experiment is also the nail in the coffin for analog black boxes...]]>Apr 25th 2007 10:54AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/]]>Apr 23rd 2007 2:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/
This way you can have compatibility with all new TVs, and most of the really cheap boxes coming up to allow people OTA 8VSB on their old TV usually will have support for in the clear QAM.

New cable boxes will be required to leave out the security hardware, so essentially they'll just be QAM tuners with a cablecard slot. This hopefully will make the prices drop if things take off, Cablecard 2.0 FTW. I would like a CableCard 2.0, that can do multi-stream(with no limit-or something like 5), and that will support encryption on a stream other than MPEG-2.

I say do it now, and up the bandwidth on the current stations. Switch everything to MPEG-4, as well, better quality whatever the bandwidth.

In 2008, I want to buy a "bring your own SATA HD" LG DVR for $100 (so its got the bad-ass OTA tuner), with a cable-card 2.0 slot, feeding on MPEG-4 based digital cable. - supplied with guide information from a in-the-clear information stream from the cable company, and running some sort of commercialized version of MythTV, or a licensed copy of the Tivo OS.]]>Apr 23rd 2007 4:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/
Of course, the plus side of more HD channels (why, oh why do I still not have the CW in HD??) would be nice.

btw, I wonder if digital signals are ever going to be as easy to receive as analog. Seriously, even CableCard is a pain in the ass in comparison to just plugging a coax cable into your TV/TV tuner card, etc.]]>Apr 23rd 2007 7:09PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/Apr 24th 2007 2:43AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/
In other words, our bill didn't change, but we wound up getting access to the extra HBO and Showtime channels, as well as a selection of HD services. Net win for us.

As Bklyn2ct mentioned, without an addressable cable box, the only analog channels we got were the OTA networks, Public Access, NY1 and TV Guide Channel.]]>Apr 24th 2007 8:37AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/04/23/the-time-warner-staten-island-project-tons-of-hd/
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