TiVo continued to urge the FCC Media Bureau...
TiVo continued to urge the FCC Media Bureau to reconsider the relief granted to Charter on CableCARD rules. TiVo’s petition for reconsideration of that relief is pending (CD May 22 p20). While the EchoStar decision this year effectively vacated portions…
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of the CableCARD rules, “it did not simply eliminate cable operators’ CableCARD obligations altogether, including the obligation to supply CableCARDs to consumers who utilize competitive devices,” TiVo said in response to Charter’s opposition to TiVo’s petition (http://bit.ly/12DMCX8). The EchoStar decision has created some confusion by finding the encoding rules to be non-severable from the rest of the second report and order and vacating it in its entirety, TiVo said. To address this confusion, the commission should consider a proceeding “to remove such uncertainty and reinstate the rules that the commission clearly has the authority to enact,” it said. TiVo also said it urged the bureau to disclaim any statements beyond the scope of Charter’s waiver “regarding the acceptability of specific security solutions without more detailed guidance from the full commission following public notice and comment.” An attorney for Charter said previously that vacating its waiver order would weaken CableCARD support requirements (CD June 6 p3).