CableCard Users Are Getting Screwed Out of HD Channels

Our friend Gary Merson , the HD Guru , has uncovered an issue that may soon piss you off . line customers who use the current CableCard to decode signal like a shot in their TV , a TiVo or Windows Media Center PC may soon set about losing HD line because of a change in technology . To conserve bandwidth , cable television carrier are move from a unmediated stream of video to “ switched digital television , ” which use two - way digital cable boxes to see what customers postulate then send it to them . CableCards are only one - way , so they ca n’t make enjoyment of any SDV coming down the pipe . What does this think ? Merson says that as of April 15 , Cablevision has snub off CableCard entree to 15 Voom HD channels , and Time Warner will apparently make interchangeable cuts .

Cablevision and Time Warner Cable say that there is a CableLabs fix , a USB - based dongle that will start the upstream communicating required for SDV . But Merson says makers of CableCard TV set ( fewer and farther between these days ) ca n’t make function of any USB dongles . TiVo , on the other hand , said in Decemberit would let go the SDV - compatible dongle at an unspecified sentence this yr , though they ’re not talking any more about it at the current time .

It ’s a lot of cable - technical school mumbo jumbo , but if it mean lose groove ( and not getting any kind of vengeance for the loss , allege Merson ) , well , it ’s a crisis . Fortunately , the magnanimous industryCable Showwill be happen presently , so allow ’s make indisputable they have something to speak about . chequer with your supplier , and allow us know if you ’re experience any SDV - related shafting on your end . [ HD Guru ]

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