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There seems to be NO technical reason that BrightHouse is doing this. It is clearly a move to screw TiVo users and force them to use the terrible cable company provided DVR...]]>Feb 8th 2008 11:21AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/
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]]>Feb 8th 2008 12:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/Feb 8th 2008 1:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=383361 to see how we are "dealing with this here dilemma". I believe BHN CF has been surprised by the speed and volume of the negative PR that has been generated. They would probably not be in this situation if the reason for the sudden limitation was technical, i.e. - they had deployed SDV on Februrary 1. We could live with that until the SDV adapter appeared later this year. Instead, the sudden limitation is due to a policy decision that primarily affected TiVo owners. And, when it was discovered the policy didn't apply to BHN equipment (some which use an internal CableCARD), that just made us mad.]]>Feb 8th 2008 9:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/Feb 8th 2008 2:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/Feb 8th 2008 5:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/
Sounds to me like this is TIVO's fault kids!

I live in Orlando and have the Brighthouse HD-DVR, and let me tell you, I'm loving these new HD channels. I didn't know these were using switched video already, but, whatever it takes to get new HD.

Brighthouse needs to compete with DirecTV, so, excuse them for leaving a few hundred people in orlando in the dust...but.. you can't blame them for wanting to use new technology.]]>Feb 8th 2008 8:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/And it's not a TiVo problem, it is a CableCARD problem. It affects anyone using CableCARDs whether in a TV, a media PC, or a TiVo. It is just that TiVo owners rent most of the CableCARDS, and are therefore the most vociferous about it. ]]>Feb 8th 2008 9:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/bright-house-cablecard-customers-lose-four-hd-channels-offered/ ]]>Apr 30th 2008 12:01PM