http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/ Engadget Comments for FCC requests comments about the future of CableCARD and AllVid http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/Apr 22nd 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/Apr 22nd 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/Well it's not really a card, so that wouldn't make any sense either. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/
The FCC prefers not to force any particular technology on anyone. So instead they take TiVo's suggestion and give CableLabs an opportunity to respond. If they don't, then it'll be made into a rule. Or if CableLabs comes back and says it won't work and here's why, the FCC will listen, but require an alternative solution that obtains the same goal of making SDV channels work on the TiVo without the need for additional hardware.

It is actually a pretty fair process and much more effective than I ever game the gov't credit for.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/Apr 23rd 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/
I think the "AllVid" idea is probably a better long-term solution. I think the AllVid approach works better with SDV, and is generally probably better suited for handling weird things that cable companies might want to do in the future on the back-end, without impacting costumers on the front-end. I also suspect the AllVid approach would probably work better with video-on-demand.

Don't get me wrong- I'd love to have unencumbered TV signals going throughout my house. I have a HTPC right now, and it's a fairly complicated setup right now with a combination of clear QAM tuners, a firewire-recording STB, and another HD STB hooked up to an HD-PVR. But, I don't expect we'll see an FCC standard that will prohibit DRM, because content creators and providers are too concerned about video piracy. I think their fears are misguided, since I think fairly widespread piracy will happen at least as long as there are analog outputs on STBs, and almost certainly beyond that as well.]]>Apr 24th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list

All you have to do is select the proceeding, 97-80 and then enter your comments. The more people that comment on the failure of the current tuning adapters, the more likely we'll get a quick fix.

John]]>Apr 25th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/Apr 25th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/
The TAs lock up and become unresponsive which makes you miss recordings on channels and in some cases locks up the entire DVR.

The AllVid isn't a quick fix, but the FCC plans to replace TAs with an IP connection between the headend and the DVR by this Fall.]]>Apr 25th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/fcc-requests-comments-about-the-future-of-cablecard-and-allvid/
John]]>Apr 25th 2010 8:36PM