On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > S3 will probably work with DirecTV with an IR blaster, but you won't > > get HD. Similar to the older SA TiVos > The S3 has two CableCard slots and works fine with digital cable, > including high def. However, satellite TV is not as heavily regulated > as cable TV, so the satellite industry does not support CableCard. > (All the "TV delivery" companies generally sees interoperability as a > threat. They want to lock you into their box. The FCC is presently > forcing cable TV to enable some interoperability. Satellite is more > of a free market.)
*supposedly* DirecTV is working with Micro$oft on a CableCard card for use with Vista Media Center. Of course, they where also working with Microsoft on the DirecTV Media Center, which has seemingly fallen apart considering they have released no update on the vaporware media center in over a year and a half. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
