Digital TV
That 97 percent of CableCARD-deployed set-top boxes installed between July 2007 and November 2009 were leased from cable operators rather than purchased at retail was cited in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan as evidence that competition in set-top boxes hasn’t…
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materialized and needs to be fixed quickly (CED March 17 p2) OR (CD March 17 p7) OR (WID March 17 p8). Set-top boxes “are an important part of the broadband ecosystem,” the plan said. Lack of innovation in set-top boxes “limits what consumers can do and their choices to consume video, and the emergence of new uses and applications,” it said. “It may also be inhibiting business models that could serve as a powerful driver of adoption and utilization of broadband, such as, models that integrate traditional television and the Internet."