HDTV: just plug and play: we'll have DTV without set-top boxes by 2004. (Top of the Week).(high definition television)

Broadcasting & Cable, December, 2002 by Kerschbaumer, Ken

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and cable operators (in the guise of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association) have reached agreement on "plug-and-play" for digital TV sets, a move that will allow consumers, sometime in 2004. to buy DTV sets that will not require a cable set-top box to receive HDTV content via cable.

"This agreement wears down totally what was probably the largest obstacle or bump to HDTV," says CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro. 90% SERVED Fourteen consumer-electronics companies and seven major cable operators representing more than 75% of all cable subscribers, signed the memo of understanding, which includes voluntary commitments as well as technical proposals for rules to be adopted by the FCC. ...

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