Time to plug & play: cable, CE industries reach TV accord.(agreement between cable and consurmer electronics industries leads the way to plug and play digital televisions)
Multichannel News, December, 2002 by Brown, Karen
Setting aside years of bitter discord, the cable and consumer-electronics industries last week inked a groundbreaking agreement that will marry digital cable and TV technology, paving the way for plug-and play high-definition televisions that don't require a set-top box. But while the agreement is an important step, the two groups still must convince the Federal Communications Commission to turn the agreement's proposed rules into federal regulations, and -- perhaps more importantly -- convince still-wary content producers to back the deal.
The "plug-and-play" agreement between seven top cable MSOs and 14 digital-TV manufacturers will set the foundation for high-definition digital TV sets with built-in cable set-top box functions. Under the...
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