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[OT] FY: Comcast/Clear QAM/MythTV/Other shoe drops



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:57:00AM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 09/22/2009 11:43 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > One thing I did check out is that very few TVs do
> > support CableCard. I was looking for a low cost 15" to 19" to replace
> > the 20+ year old analog TV.
> 
> Yeah, I poked around for those recently and only came up with 60"
> multi-thousand-dollar monsters.  The whole CableCard thing is a joke.  It's
> only practical purpose is Tivo, and they're going to be run out of business
> soon (the cable-company-offered DVRs are cheaper).

The cableco DVRs have always been cheaper. TiVo is an awful lot
like Apple, and attracts the same category of users.

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