Philips Moves Show Box Duopoly Lives.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. scales back set-top box efforts in US)(Statistical Data Included)
Multichannel News, July, 2001 by BAUMGARTNER, JEFF
Royal Philips Electronics' decision to scale back its set-top and receiver product lines for the U.S. market is further proof of the strength of Motorola Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta Inc.'s digital-cable set-top duopoly, industry analysts say. And until a true retail market for cable set-tops emerges -- and a spate of proprietary conditional access issues are solved -- manufacturers such as Panasonic Consumer Electronics, Pace Micro Technology plc and Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc.
will continue to face trouble in bringing diversity to the market. Without a strong and diverse array of manufacturers, cable set-top innovations are likely to stagnate or come at a much slower pace than in the advanced boxes being brought to market by cable's biggest...
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