1.) The tuner resolver for Tivo I believe only is meant to work with SDV. To get PPV/On-Demand I think will take a new model with the OCAP application stack.
2.) The biggest problem with Tru2Way (and what doomed Cablecard before it) is the lack of a requirement (based on what I read) for the head-end to send guide data for the TV or STB. You ended up with three scenarios, either no guide at all (like my LG Plasma), the crappy TV Guide On-Screen solution that never seemed to work quite right, or a Tivo/VMC solution which required a network connection and a fee to get the data (either paid monthly ala Tivo or built in to the price of the product ala VMC) and that requires some kind of network connection. Not something J6P will want to bother with.
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A couple of additional points.
1.) The tuner resolver for Tivo I believe only is meant to work with SDV. To get PPV/On-Demand I think will take a new model with the OCAP application stack.
2.) The biggest problem with Tru2Way (and what doomed Cablecard before it) is the lack of a requirement (based on what I read) for the head-end to send guide data for the TV or STB. You ended up with three scenarios, either no guide at all (like my LG Plasma), the crappy TV Guide On-Screen solution that never seemed to work quite right, or a Tivo/VMC solution which required a network connection and a fee to get the data (either paid monthly ala Tivo or built in to the price of the product ala VMC) and that requires some kind of network connection. Not something J6P will want to bother with.
Tru2Way supplies the guide data from the cable company.