Compatibility with specific car makes and models is the tricky part though. There are a handful of adapters that claim to turn CarPlay into Wireless CarPlay for around $100. Now there’s a solution for turning standard CarPlay into Wireless CarPlay, at least for some models, and it actually works! I really wanted Wireless CarPlay, but replacing my entertainment system was too disruptive. My Civic came with Apple CarPlay, but the HR-V had a basic entertainment system so I upgraded its system with an Alpine unit with Wireless CarPlay. “There may well be creative IP solutions and technological designs for interactive services, but they should be addressed for all MVPDs on an AllVid basis in the NOI, not in this short-term cable-centric proceeding,” NCTA said.A few years ago I purchased two new Hondas.

The NCTA cited comments from Arris - which now owns Digeo, producer of the Moxi DVR - saying that a move to an IP backchannel would be expensive, disruptive and distracting and that such a change “risks doing more harm than good” because the SDV tuning adapters are working. NCTA also reiterated its position that the integrated set-top ban should be eliminated (see NCTA Answers Critics of CableCard Stance and NCTA To FCC: End Set-Top Integration Ban).Īlso chiming in against requiring a new IP backchannel for CableCard devices to access SDV were Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cisco Systems. “Although TiVo and CEA have elsewhere recognized that technology mandates stifle innovation, they seek to impose a new mandate exclusively on cable: to engineer a new Internet pathway to cable headends that will handle SDV signaling from third-party devices, in lieu of the Tuning Adapters that are working now over secure cable plant,” NCTA said. And for the benefit of very, very few customers. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association, in its own reply comments Monday, pointed out that developing and supporting an “IP backchannel” for TiVos and other devices would impose a new, time-consuming and complex requirement, only on cable. Switched digital video conserves bandwidth by delivering linear TV channels only when a subscriber in a given neighborhood requests them - but SDV isn’t compatible with one-way CableCard devices hence the need for the tuning adapters from Cisco and Motorola. SDV has been widely rolled out by Cablevision Systems, Cox and Time Warner Cable, with Comcast expecting to start ramping up later this year (see Comcast Tees Up Switched Video Rollouts).

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