What’s Next For CableCARD and Vista

Blogger, forum member, MVP, and cable-card know-it-all, Chris Lanier, has posted an awesome article about Cable Card, with good information for anyone wanting more details about past, present & future status. Some interesting things, and I agree wholeheartedly with him, in hoping we don’t have to wait years before we see improvements to the current implementations.

Chris Lanier

The BOCR upgrade path is one of the most important issues. The OCUR project between CableLabs and Microsoft was developed with a “migration path” from unidirectional to bidirectional communications in mind. I would say that current OCUR-enabled PCs will work fine with BOCRs because of this. The issue that I can see is how OEMs chose to handle the sales of the BOCRs, or if CableLabs would open up sales to everyone (don’t count on it). The good news about this is that BOCRs should support M-Cards, so you only need a single BOCR for a dual tuner machine.

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