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Early and present adopters of cable High Definition have seen there cable bills skyrocket. The reason is two-fold. First, HD content has a price. Second, and more relevent to DCAS is because early adopters have been forced monoplistically to rent cable boxes, CableCards, and remotes from the cable companies to view digital content. CableCards if used in place of a cable box does reduce cable bills, by lowering rental fees. The trade off is less functions, because current cards are one way. One-way cards do not allow for video on demand, or pay per view programming. Two-way cards allow for VOD, PPV, and program scheduling, etc.
 
On July 1, 2007 consumers will be able to purchase third pary DVRs, and TVs and view digital cable content without having to rent from the cable company.
 
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