Set-Top Makers Move to Split Out Security.
Multichannel News, December, 2006
By Todd Spangler Cable Operators Still Lobbying FCC To Avert a Ban The cable industry is aggressively lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to try and head off a rule that would not allow security features be built directly into digital set-top boxes. But with a mid-2007 deadline to comply nearing, the two biggest set-top box manufacturers -- Motorola and Scientific Atlanta -- are proceeding as if the ban will go into effect, shifting manufacturing to favor models in which security features are separated through add-on CableCard hardware.
The FCC's rule would require any new set-top boxes deployed by cable operators as of July 1, 2007, to carve out the means by which the boxes control access to the TV services that the box...
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