RESton Peace Wrote:
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> I just want all these companies - Verizon, Cox,
> Comcast, Directv, whoever, to start using
> cablecards. That way I don't have to worry about
> making yet ANOTHER remote control work with my
> shit and I don't have to make space for a
> converter.
for cable companies, being an asshole and having horrific cablecard or no cablecard support is far more profitable. having your customers pay $15 per month per cable box is a lot more than $3 per cablecard(government mandate). i found recently on cox.net that you can get an ancient cablecard from cox as it's listed on their price chart buried somewhere deep in the site. the listing said they are "working" on getting anything past cablecard 1.0 standards... it was dated 2004. i would like the slit the necks of the people who are intentionally profiting by having such crappy cablecard support.
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."