Comments on: Lunch Bits – Edition 1

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:02:03 +0000

All I can say is the FCC, the Feds, or the Senate, just hurry up and make HD OTA mandatory. I shouldn’t have to rely on Cable or Satellite to get my HD programming.

By: LK

LK — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:30:21 +0000

“TiVO: Get more units. Hack more hard drive space. Cable companies will no longer carry local HD channels using QAM cards – now require a digital cable box. ”

Small correction.

Not all HD channels from Cox are using switched digital video–only the newer ones from what I hear. New switched digital channels from can’t be picked up by CableCard which is how you can get encrypted channels from Cox without a cable box. HD Tivo uses CableCard, but now it looks like you won’t get all the HD channels.

On the other hand, QAM tuners are for the free unencrypted HD channels carried over coax. HD Tivo works with it, but you don’t currently get guide info with Tivo service for QAM channels.

Clear as mud? And you wonder why more people don’t get into HD.

BTW, Tivo announced a dongle solution to get switched digital video in 2008: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-.....pagebottom

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:47:40 +0000

Cant beat the A3 with 10 HD-DVD’s for $187!

By: Spring Mountain Motorsports

Spring Mountain Motorsports — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:55:27 +0000

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