‘We fundamentally disagree’ with the NCTA’s assertion that CableC...
“We fundamentally disagree” with the NCTA’s assertion that CableCARD is “a priority for the cable industry,” TiVo told the FCC in an ex parte filing (MB 97-80). Cable’s real priority, “measured by its level of effort,” is elimination of…
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the July 2006 integration ban “and complete control of navigation devices,” TiVo said: “If it was not apparent before cable’s onslaught of lobbying to eliminate the integration ban, it should be plain now that requiring cable operators to use the same CableCARD security system as CE manufacturers use is the only way to give cable operators the incentive to embrace CableCARDs and ultimately enable CE manufacturers to provide consumers with competitive cable set-top boxes,” TiVo said. It urged the Commission to leave the July 2006 integration ban unchanged.