When you reconnect the Tuning Adapter, you will see the following message. Press Select to continue. You will now be able to access all your channels, including SDV channels.
If the channel is not currently broadcasting to your neighborhood, an SDV server at the headend sets the channel up on one of the unused frequencies and sends the programming to you. The time to set up the channel and send the tuning information to the box is so short that you may not be able to tell the difference between this operation and a conventional channel tune.
Each time you tune to a channel, a timer on the SDV server resets for that channel. After a time period chosen by your cable provider elapses usually a few hours , you will see the following message:. The SDV server uses this communication to determine if someone is actively watching the channel or if the TV was simply tuned to that channel when it was turned off.
If you press Select , the timer for the channel resets. If you do not press Select , the server may temporarily remove the channel to make room for another, requested channel. If this happens you will see the following message:.
To get the channel back, simply tune to it. If bandwidth is available, the server will set the channel up again. If you still see this message, it means that there is no bandwidth available to send you the channel. SDV and Tuning Adapters are very new technologies that are being deployed rapidly, however.
While it is possible for you to request a channel that the cable provider does not have the bandwidth to send, this should be very rare. When the box begins a recording, it sends a signal to the Tuning Adapter that includes a channel request and the information that it is recording. While the recording is in progress, the Tuning Adapter sends periodic signals to the headend to indicate that the channel is in use, so your recordings do not get cut off.
A channel may switch away when a channel reaches its timeout and no one in the area confirms that they are still viewing the channel and no recordings are detected. Some SDV servers remove the channel immediately. Some SDV servers keep broadcasting the current channel until the bandwidth is required to meet another channel request. In this case, the original request to press Select to stay on a channel has timed out, and the channel switches off without any additional warning. There is only one set of program guide data for each headend.
Your cable provider can tell you which channels are available without a Tuning Adapter and which channels you receive with a Tuning Adapter. If you live in an area that already has SDV, and you have not yet received a Tuning Adapter, you can go into your channel list and deselect the channels you do not yet receive. When you receive your Tuning Adapter, you can go back into the Channel List and add the new channels.
All channels that are not copy-protected, including SDV channels, will be visible. However, you will still need to call your cable provider to get the CableCARD s paired to your new box before you can view copy-protected channels. All rights reserved. Charter will use the system to free up capacity for HD services, as well as more niche "special interest" programming. Freeing up capacity That capacity is freed up because, unlike current HFC cable systems that send all video channels to each cable home, SDV delivers video streams in a "switched" tier only when customers in a given service group select them for viewing.
If an operator "virtually" carries 50 services in that switched tier, for example, it's likely that only 10 to 12 of them are being viewed at one time and need to absorb true, physical plant capacity, notes Biren Sood, vice president and manager of BigBand's cable video business.
That frees up bandwidth for other services, such as video-on-demand streams. In the future, capacity freed up by SDV deployments could be utilized by Docsis 3. See CableLabs Preps for Docsis 3. Citing SDV deployment data, BigBand says cable operators are experiencing bandwidth savings of up to 75 percent. But SDV is not the only bandwidth strategy at cable's fingertips. Some are also gaining capacity with node splits and analog reclamation.
Others are looking to tap into advanced compression as well as outright bandwidth expansion. In the meantime Charter is fighting the marketing battle with DirecTV by saying it expects to offer more than HD "options" in most of its markets by the end of While the analysis component can be used as an all-purpose tool to gauge network performance, operators can also use it to generate streaming and viewership reports that help determine which channels are most conducive to a switched tier, according to Sood.
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In his area it is the Cisco STA datasheet. His TiVo recognized it immediately. The irony is that it seems Comcast is deploying Tuning Adapters in areas where they haven't started using SDV yet, but will be using it soon. I know, an MSO preparing for a switch before it happens? Meanwhile users of Time Warner and other systems that have been using SDV for a long time are still waiting for the TA to be available. Picked up via EngadgetHD. Current Music quiet Tags cisco , engadgethd , sdv , sta , tuning adapter.
That's nothing. That is, of course, if the numbers are true - and they may not be. See the table below and especially the first footnote 1. We could be looking at an increase of more than 34, users instead of only 2,! While 34, would certainly be better than 2,, it still isn't really setting the world on fire. Maybe the M-Card is a ray of hope in those numbers - if customers who previously used two S-Cards are trading them in for a single M-Card on devices like the TiVo HD, it would result in a lower cumulative number.
Still, I don't expect that's a huge number either. So in less than fifteen months they've deployed more than twenty times the number of CableCARDs as have been issued for 3rd party UDCPs in the four years they've been available. For the most part, this hasn't happened. Why not? Well, I think I can sum it up in one brand name: tru2way. Starting late last year , and getting an official launch at CES in January, OCAP became tru2way and marked a push to get consumer electronics companies on board.
Then starting with Samsung in May , followed by a larger push by Sony later that month , CE vendors started jumping on the tru2way bandwagon. Why invest in developing and marketing a unidirectional product when you're going to obsolete it with a two-way product in a year? The first tru2way products are starting to trickle out, and there will probably be a bunch of them on display at CES in January.
Vendors just haven't been releasing CableCARD-enabled products so there aren't many options for consumers, which naturally means not many cards are being deployed. CableCARD was slow out of the gate, and by the time MSOs had the infrastructure worked out vendors were already looking toward round two with tru2way and they just decided to sit round one with UDCPs out entirely. The deployment of SDV and the need to develop a Tuning Adapter, and to support it, was very likely a factor in that as well.
I don't expect to see any real pick-up in CableCARD utilization until a sufficient number of tru2way devices are available to consumers, and then I do expect to see a real uptick. Subs Truck Roll Avg.
Truck Rolls Avg. CC Fee Avg. Install Fee Cablevision 16, 16, Yes 1. The next quarterly report will more accurately reflect the actual count. Since Comcast has such a large installed base this could be the reason for the seemingly small total uptick. The other four combined yield an increase of 3, Comcast's apparent drop of 1, drags it down.
So we'd be looking at a total increase of 23, to 34, - rather more than around 2, And that's just from these five MSOs. Current Music quiet Tags cablecard , cablevision , charter , comcast , cox communications , fcc , ncta , sdv , time warner cable , tru2way , tuning adapter. This is a little bit behind schedule, the Tuning Resolver as the Tuning Adapter was then known was expected in 2Q But even coming in a few months late it has been an impressively quick development cycle for the cable industry.
It is known that Motorola started working on their unit last July , and they were revealed to the public last August. So it has been just about a year from the start of work to certification, which is really not a lot of time to develop, test, and certify a new product.
As recently revealed, the new 9. Pricing for customers is not yet known, except for Cox which announced plans to provide the TAs to their customers free of charge.
Current Music TV: Deadliest Catch Tags bright house , cisco , cox communications , motorola , mtr , multichannel news , scientific atlanta , sdv , sta , time warner cable , tuning adapter. When I reported on the release of the 9. Well, that question has been answered - it is in there, and Dave Zatz got a look at it and to keep things circular, he posted a video of it to YouTube. Since this was only announced on March 12, it is nice to see it coming out so soon. TiVo has long had the practice of trickling new updates out to a small number of users before officially deploying the update.
It is a kind of feeler, one last check to make sure there are not major issues that were missed in testing, and to make sure the deployment systems are ready to go.
And it looks like they've started to do that with the 9.
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