Motorola asked the FCC to approve Intel’s cable set-top box waive...
Motorola asked the FCC to approve Intel’s cable set-top box waiver request (CD Dec 29 p7) and similar other petitions. Intel “made the requisite showing” in the petition for exemption from a mandate that the devices include IEEE 1394…
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connections and instead use its system-on- a-chip media processors, Motorola said in Dec. 22 reply comments on the waiver. “Waiver is justified given the lack of marketplace demand for the 1394 interface and the costs of compliance with the 1394 Rule,” Motorola said. Waiver opponents Texas Instruments and the 1394 Trade Association contend the connections are widely deployed and accepted by consumers, the company said. “However, the large numbers of set-top boxes shipped with the 1394 interface is merely a function of the Commission’s mandate, not of any existing marketplace demand for, and consumer interest, in 1394.”