Set-top chaos: delays persist, standards remain elusive.(digital set-top boxes for cable television)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1995 by Berniker, Mark

TCI upset by wait for GI boxes; Scientific-Atlanta banks on analog When TCI ordered one million-plus digital set-top boxes more than two years ago, it expected to have taken delivery by now. It was wrong. "Expectations have changed, and the task of making a digital set-top box has proved to be more complicated than we thought," says Jeffrey Hamilton, director of technology and new business development at General Instrument Corp., the vendor.

"TCI is very unhappy that we haven't been able to deploy the product yet. "The set-top we are making for TCI now is a very different product than the one they originally ordered," says Hamilton. GI has made several adjustments in its manufacturing process and now is scheduled to deliver a series of digital set-tops...

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