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Originally Posted by Kushan
You're right about the other cable ISPs and I believe in America, it's actually law there that the cable companies must work with 3rd party equipment - one of the reasons TiVo took off, because you could just plug it into your cable network of choice. It'd be awesome to have that flexibility here, there are some really fantastic cable box alternatives out there - and we all know what the modems are like.
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But that's because over in the US, cable is the dominant technology. Cablecard, which is what is used to allow 3rd party box access is the equivalent of the CI slots you get in TVs for DVB in Europe