We'll be totally honest here: we love TiVo. TiVo DVRs of every vintage are scattered throughout the Engadget editorial ranks, and Series3 units are our preferred hardware for HD Netflix streaming and Amazon's nascent HD Video on Demand service.

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As sales triple year-over-year and a new cable communication standard arrives on the scene at the same time, a new-and-improved Apple TV could become the center of your digital home, according to a Wall Street analyst.

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CableCARD technology has always faced a major adoption hurdle. While the cards themselves can handle two-way communication, TVs and set-top boxes were unable to use them for anything beyond one-way traffic.

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The ban hammer fell on July 1, 2007. That's the date the FCC set for its "integration ban" to prevent cable TV operators from deploying set-top boxes with integrated decryption and security systems.

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Cable subscribers now can buy their own set-top boxes, but they'll have to be patient until manufacturers make the devices available.

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From the Article: July 1 is the real Independence Day for 65 million cable TV subscribers in the U.S. As of that date, says the Federal Communications Commission, they are free of the tyranny of being forced to rent miserable set-top boxes from their cable companies.

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From the article: Something big is happening in the entertainment business—and no, it's not the introduction of Apple's (AAPL) much-hyped iPhone. This one affects the cable industry, and it could mean an array of new choices for millions of subscribers across the country...

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From the article: Despite last-minute lobbying by the cable industry in the United States, after more than a decade of delays, new regulations have come into effect aimed at opening up the set-top box market to increased competition.

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For all of its promise, CableCARD has seen excruciatingly slow adoption on the part of cable customers.

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AMD used the Consumer Electronics Show to announce the new ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner yesterday, which will officially be launched on January 30, the same day Vista ships.

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So what exactly will a Vista HTPC with CableCARD support actually get for me? The answer is high definition cable programming. My local cable provider is Cox cable. I took a look at the list of cable channels Cox provides in order to see what I am missing.

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No integration for you!

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An interesting update from the recent CEDIA conference on the current state of CableCard deployment in the Home Entertainment market. With followup commentary outlining some of the resistance to bringing cablecard out for widespread consumer use.

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A federal appeals court upheld an FCC mandate last month requiring cable companies to support CableCard technology -- which essentially allows consumers to get rid of their set-top cable TV boxes.

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TiVo has released new standard-definition DVR units capable of recording two programs at once.

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CableCard, for those interested in Home Theater PCs, will revolutionize the industry.

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