> Anyone care to comment about this apparent Cablecard limitation? CableCards are DEcoders. They take an inbound signal and convert it for display locally. Services like pay-per-view and video on demand depend on bi-directional traffic, signals have to go BACK to the cable company. That's beyond the scope of a decoder like CableCard. As such there's nothing wrong with the cablecard concept. Times and technology have changed since the inception of the CableCard idea and things like VoD and PPV are part of that evolution. It's reasonable to assume that future generations of cablecard-type devices will evolve to support new features like VOD and PPV.
Personally there's never been anything on TV I've ever needed to see "that bad" that I had to resort to the outrageous prices they gouge for PPV and VOD. I've been happy to be patient, setup a wishlist and simply wait for it to eventually roll around to being broadcast. That and put 'em in my Netflix queue. We're switching from DirecTV to FIOS. One TV will be setup with a regular FIOS set top box and a Series2 standalone Tivo. So if there is anything "that important" we'll still have a way to get to it. It won't be as tightly integrated as if it were integrated into the Tivo, but then, it's JUST TV... so who really cares that much? -Bill Kearney
