Or, they could use Switched Digital Video to save bandwidth on the digital tiers, which is what they're doing.
The article says "they have to support CableCARDs and the hardware for OCAP". You're somewhat right, CableCARD is an FCC requirement but OCAP is not required by law.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Nielsen says consumers can't get enough of HD -yet:
http://www.cable360.net/competition/dbs/25933.html
Or, they could use Switched Digital Video to save bandwidth on the digital tiers, which is what they're doing.
The article says "they have to support CableCARDs and the hardware for OCAP". You're somewhat right, CableCARD is an FCC requirement but OCAP is not required by law.