TiVo Meets With Media Bureau on CableCARD
The FCC should launch a rulemaking based on the efforts of the Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee, TiVo said in a meeting Tuesday with Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake, FCC Chief Technology Officer Scott Jordan, aides to Chairman Tom Wheeler,…
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and Media Bureau staff, said an ex parte filing posted Thursday in docket 15-64. The FCC should also issue a clarification that Charter Communications must continue to provide and support CableCARDs until “post-CableCARD successor solutions that enable retail competition are widely deployed and consumers no longer need or desire to use CableCARDs,” TiVo said. “The very predicate for a functioning retail market is that consumers and manufacturers have certainty that navigation devices purchased at retail will continue to be able to receive the cable signals that consumers have bought.”