They will get the waiver. TWC San Diego already got the waiver and is encrypting local HD OTA stations, requiring the use of a cable box for ANY HD programming.
This is a huge inconvenience for me now, as I HATE cable boxes and have several TVs that were set up to use their built-in clearQAM tuners to watch local HD programming. Now I can't do it. They threw this switch about a month ago.
Combine this with the fact that my single TiVo Series 3 with SDV is so flaky that I literally have to reboot it once a day (or more) or the SDV adapter stops changing the channels. (It was pretty stable, aside from the flaky TWC support for CableCard, prior to the SDV rollout.)
Thanks, FCC, for caving in to the cable providers and not sticking up for the consumer.
Have you filed a complaint with the FCC? How will they know you don't approve if you don't tell them? Email your congressmen too while you're at it. And before you say, "why bother," I'd remind you that I doubt either of them read this and you posted it here.
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They will get the waiver. TWC San Diego already got the waiver and is encrypting local HD OTA stations, requiring the use of a cable box for ANY HD programming.
This is a huge inconvenience for me now, as I HATE cable boxes and have several TVs that were set up to use their built-in clearQAM tuners to watch local HD programming. Now I can't do it. They threw this switch about a month ago.
Combine this with the fact that my single TiVo Series 3 with SDV is so flaky that I literally have to reboot it once a day (or more) or the SDV adapter stops changing the channels. (It was pretty stable, aside from the flaky TWC support for CableCard, prior to the SDV rollout.)
Thanks, FCC, for caving in to the cable providers and not sticking up for the consumer.
Have you filed a complaint with the FCC? How will they know you don't approve if you don't tell them? Email your congressmen too while you're at it. And before you say, "why bother," I'd remind you that I doubt either of them read this and you posted it here.