Most likely a short while, if you're using cable. With continuous bandwidth pressure from competing with satellite and FiOS, all the cable companies are going to go with SDV eventually, it's just a matter of time. Fortunately, the end result is that we'll have even more HD channels available, and hopefully they'll be able to continue, or go back to, sending the original signal from the source broadcaster.
Too bad the whole cable card implementation got shot down before it even really took off. Reminds me of the IEEE1394 link that was supposed to let us record all our HD, with mostly reasonable (5C) copy protection along the way.
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Most likely a short while, if you're using cable. With continuous bandwidth pressure from competing with satellite and FiOS, all the cable companies are going to go with SDV eventually, it's just a matter of time. Fortunately, the end result is that we'll have even more HD channels available, and hopefully they'll be able to continue, or go back to, sending the original signal from the source broadcaster.
Too bad the whole cable card implementation got shot down before it even really took off. Reminds me of the IEEE1394 link that was supposed to let us record all our HD, with mostly reasonable (5C) copy protection along the way.