Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission finally gave up on trying to mandate more alternatives to clunky and expensive cable boxes. In a unanimous decision, the agency eliminated rules ...
Another deadline came and went July 1 as the ban on integrated set-top boxes—those without a separable security system such as a CableCARD—went into effect. Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola say they ...
The cable industry suffered a blow on Friday when a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's mandate requiring cable operators to distribute a technology called CableCards, ...
If the industry press is to be believed, Tuesday's announcement that Sony would be producing TVs with Tru2way compatibility was a watershed event--the electronics world equivalent of the Magna Carta ...
It looks like I'm going to finally have to switch to digital cable, as sticking with analog is becoming absurdly expensive. The cable company here is Cox (a name and an attitude!) and they now have an ...
The cable industry is pulling out all the stops to avoid the integration ban--an 8-year-old law that directs cable companies to separate security functions from set-top boxes, so the devices can be ...
The Consumer Electronics Show could see the beginnings of a resurgence of CableCard, the PCMCIA Type II card that authorizes and decrypts a cable TV signal for a TV or TV peripheral. Many PCs, set-top ...
As we discussed in our earlier advisory here, last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted additional obligations for cable operators related to their support for customer use of ...
Story<BR><BR>Those planning on upgrading their media Center PC to take advantage of Vista's CableCARD support had better sit down for this one'”you're going to need a new computer, and you can forget ...
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