This is good, why not sooner? The big question is, why didn't they A.Have the current cablecard slot interface support future cards via firmware update, or B. Have the cablecard slot interface reside much closer to root electronics (or lower in the "protocol stack" if you will) so such changes would not affect the ability to use a new card with an old slot.
Also, would be cool for the new cable card have the capacity to have more than one tuner inside and DVR software. No storage on the card of course, but it would support hooking up an external hard drive to those firewire ports on the set. To keep the content providers from worrying, the card would format the HD with a proprietary file-system or something so they wouldn't have to waste processor overhead for encryption, or a standard FS and use encryption.
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Cecil @ Oct 20th 2005 10:37AM
This is good, why not sooner? The big question is, why didn't they A.Have the current cablecard slot interface support future cards via firmware update, or B. Have the cablecard slot interface reside much closer to root electronics (or lower in the "protocol stack" if you will) so such changes would not affect the ability to use a new card with an old slot.
Also, would be cool for the new cable card have the capacity to have more than one tuner inside and DVR software. No storage on the card of course, but it would support hooking up an external hard drive to those firewire ports on the set. To keep the content providers from worrying, the card would format the HD with a proprietary file-system or something so they wouldn't have to waste processor overhead for encryption, or a standard FS and use encryption.