Boxee CEO Avner Ronen demonstrated its video device to commissioners Mignon...
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen demonstrated its video device to commissioners Mignon Clyburn and an aide to Robert McDowell (http://xrl.us/bmyvj5), as the consumer electronics maker tries to dissuade the FCC from letting cable operators encrypt the basic-programming tier that its product…
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accesses without scrambling (CD March 12 p6). What the agency has proposed on encryption would “cause existing products consumers rely on to stop working [and] force millions of users to rent set-top boxes,” said a slide shown in last week’s meetings. Encryption would “harm start-ups trying to innovate in the space, prevent competitiveness in the market place” and “benefit cable operators at the expense of consumers and startups,” said the slide, filed Monday in docket 11-169 (http://xrl.us/bmyvkb). “Millions of consumers may see their TVs go dark,” another slide said. Boxee asked the agency to make cable operators scrambling basic-tier channels ensure subscribers don’t have to pay more to rent hardware, and let third parties certify non-cable devices “at no or low cost to device makers."