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This is really weird, I am not a very politically oriented person, however I am finding myself forced to point out certain things that I just find astounding within the political arena these days. Read this article and see what brainless schemes people can come up with :( I have been dreaming of building myself a mythTV box to have my own DVR as well as creating a library of all my daughter's DVDs. But it looks like there are some issues with CableCARD that may make this a not so useful exercise. It was already bad enough that you could not get PayPerView type of content with the current iteration of CableCARD, now to add on the fact that I will not be able to use it in a system of my choice :( For those of you who can vote and affect how things are done, please help put some common sense into the syste. Having CableCARD controlled by CableLabs which is in turn controller by a consortium of Cable companies seems like a VERY bad idea. The whole point of the CableCARD was to remove our dependency on lockin into Cable set-top boxes. Only to find out that the new system is still crippled and will not let me build a system of my choice :( Hopefully my next entry can be about something more GEEKY than this :)
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