Cable company boxes
December 1st, 2009
Competing against the cable companies’ hardware is pretty difficult, and we expect most such products to be as expensive, or more-so, than TiVo HD–at least in the near future. Similar CableCard-compatible products are available, including adapters for Media Center PCs, and many more should hit the market in the next few years. Still, the benefits of the TiVo interface and additional features are worth it for some people. It uses two cable cards to receive and record just about any cable company’s digital and hd tv cable programming. The most-popular alternative to cable company boxes is the excellent TiVo HD. The overwhelming majority of cable customers with HDTVs choose to rent the box from the company, but a few products employ CableCard to offer an alternative.
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