On January 18, 2007 at 08:41, Theaterworks said...
... I'm told that the hardware side is perfectly capable of
providing any level of control, discrete codes, multiple
code sets, etc. These are offered to the various cable
companies, and each company decides what they want and
what they pay for. There's a post above that mentions
a cable company (Cox?) has features on their Motorola
box that are not common to other cable company's Motorola
boxes.
This mirrors what I've also been told. However, with the increased competition from MCE, Tivo, and now phone companies, I think that the cable boxes might be ripe for new options.
CJ