Cable's set-top set-to.(regulation information)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 2000 by McConnell, Bill

Retailers accuse operators of dragging their feet over deadline for separating security protection and interactive-TV functions The cable industry is squaring off again with retailers and consumer-equipment makers over digital set-top boxes. In the latest round of acrimony, cable companies are trying to fight off a push to move up the government's 2005 deadline for banning MSOs' sale or lease of set-top boxes that integrate security protections with channel-surfing and interactive-TV functions.

Retailers such as Circuit City and consumer-equipment makers, on the other hand, say the FCC should move the date to 2002, arguing that the cable industry is delaying development of open standards needed for manufacture of competing set-top boxes. By...

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