Comments are due April 8, replies April 18, on TiVo’s...
Comments are due April 8, replies April 18, on TiVo’s request (CD Feb 7 p17) to be let out of FCC rules requiring analog tuners in cable-ready consumer electronics, said a Media Bureau public notice on docket 11-105 (http://bit.ly/138NVNn). The…
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company sought last month to sell all-digital Premiere set-tops without the tuners. “TiVo claims that these requirements as applied to its set-top boxes hinder innovation, increase costs to customers and serve as an unnecessary barrier to the market for” DVRs, the notice said. It said “TiVo commits, as it did in its 2011 waiver request” which was granted to the company for Premiere Elite set-tops, “to educate consumers about the functions of its set-top boxes to ensure that consumers are not confused about the boxes’ capabilities."