Comments on: Good news for the DIY MCE+HDTV crowd http://www.edbott.com/mediacenter/archives/good-news-for-the-diy-mcehdtv-crowd/ Thu, 21 May 2009 20:22:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Coyote http://www.edbott.com/mediacenter/archives/good-news-for-the-diy-mcehdtv-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Coyote Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:48:53 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/mediacenter/archives/good-news-for-the-diy-mcehdtv-crowd/#comment-329 IIRC, ATI's OCUR was announced well before the news that individual systems would require CL approval. In any case, I thought it was the bi-directional CableCARD2 platform (capable of using the providers' own EPG, VOD services, pay-per-view, pretty much anything their STB can do) that required per-system CL certification. 2-way CableCARD2 is a ways off anyway. You can't even get those cards for TVs yet! IIRC, ATI’s OCUR was announced well before the news that individual systems would require CL approval.

In any case, I thought it was the bi-directional CableCARD2 platform (capable of using the providers’ own EPG, VOD services, pay-per-view, pretty much anything their STB can do) that required per-system CL certification.

2-way CableCARD2 is a ways off anyway. You can’t even get those cards for TVs yet!

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