Originally Posted by
ScottC
At least Verizon has the option of Cablecards, our area is getting AT&T uVerse (in addition to Comcast) but they don't offer Cablecard
The reason that Uverse can't support cable card is that it is an IPTV platform. Cablecard can't decode that, as it is too robust to do. The Uverse boxes run Microsoft CE (in some fashion) that handles all the decoding.
I've heard that FiOS won't be able to support cablecard once they switch the tv service to a switched channel environment, vs the full broadcast one they are using today.