TiVo CEO: ‘We’re All For Moving On Beyond CableCARD’

With the CableCARD regime set to end following passage of the satellite reauthorization bill and the Federal Communications Commission now tasked with pursuing a successor platform, consider TiVo to be pleased as punch about all of it.

“We’re all for moving on beyond CableCARD, because that has been one helluva lot of friction in our consumer business,” TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers said, referring to TiVo’s years-long battle to reduce CableCARD-induced installation headaches for its retail products. “Our issue,” he said, “has simply been to make sure the cable industry supports CableCARD until we’re really transitioning to a new standard of downloadable security that works better.”