Comcast noted there are “various ways” cable customers with devices...
Comcast noted there are “various ways” cable customers with devices using quadrature amplitude modulation can get channels on the basic tier the company wants the ability to encrypt in all-digital systems. Makers of clear QAM devices including Boxee, which has…
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said the FCC may decide in the next few months whether to allow any all-digital system to scramble the basic tier (CD May 17 p6), oppose encryption. There are “substantial consumer and other public interest benefits associated with basic tier encryption,” Comcast reported top legal executives told new FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai. Benefits include “remote service connections and disconnections and reduced theft of service,” the cable operator said, seeking an “expeditious” okay. Thursday’s ex parte filing in docket 11-169 on the meeting, held as the Cable Show occurred in Boston, said it was attended by Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen, Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington President Kyle McSlarrow and Comcast Senior Vice President Kathy Zachem (http://xrl.us/bm9dzy).