Multi-industry meetings continue on bidirectional plug-&-play set...
Multi-industry meetings continue on bidirectional plug-&-play set tops, but “I can’t even begin to guess” when there might be an agreement, Brian Smith, of Philips, Cable Working Group chmn., told the CEA Video Div. Tues. at the CEA Industry…
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Forum in San Francisco. As for unidirectional plug-&-play, Panasonic’s Peter Fannon, CEA Video Div. chmn., told us the “experience” of rolling out CableCARD-ready products “in general has been very good in most places.” Still, Fannon said, CE will continue to press its case at the FCC and elsewhere that digital cable ready DTV products be made “fully competitive.” CableCARD problems generally have been “resolved promptly,” Fannon said. He said he’s sympathetic to cable, because CableCARDs afford “a raft of very complex issues.” But at the same time, he said, “there shouldn’t be any issues that aren’t insurmountable.” Moreover, he said, cable had “6 years’ notice” to get CableCARDs right.