The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Why so long? Cox cable here in Gainesville, Florida is already using SDV for all there new channels. I Can't get them on my current HD tivo, why do i have to wait 6 months?
My guess is, the cable companies see no "benefit" to them to add support for third-party devices like the TiVo, so they drag their feet and try to say that CableCARD is a dead product, all the while never promoting the fact that they even offer CC or support for other cable boxes. They have sweetheart deals with their preferred set-top box / DVR provider, and so don't see any reason why you, the customer, should be able to connect some foreign device to their network. I think only because TiVo begged and cajoled them into providing broad base support for a (third) third-party box to be able to two-way communicate -- what, that couldn't have been included in CC 1.0?? -- that you're even seeing support for it.