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Jeff @ May 22nd 2007 4:35PM

Leave it to MS and their licensed partners to take something every Media Center user was dying for and make it as difficult to use and feature-crippled as possible, thereby ensuring its failure.

Then in a year, when everybody looks at the numbers, they'll say "well, we tried, and there just wasn't any market" as they pull all support to focus on their own proprietary and DRM-laden IPTV or some other such nonsense.

Mark my words.

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ScOObyDoo @ May 22nd 2007 4:46PM

I hardly think you can Blame Microsoft for this. CableCard is a PITA and that has nothing to do with them. It took me 2 weeks just to get my Tivo working correctly with 2 cards. In this case Microsoft has to deal with ATI, Dell and the cable company.

And when the vast majority of cable employees don't even know what a cable card is (like in my case) then you are in trouble.

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