Sharp Corp. executives met recently with FCC Comr. Ness and legal...
Sharp Corp. executives met recently with FCC Comr. Ness and legal adviser David Goodfriend to press for Commission action to spur retail availability of competitive digital cable set-top boxes. Brandishing market research report, Sharp officials said retail market for…
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digital cable set-tops was not expected to develop before year-end, more than year after agency required cable industry to separate security functions from its digital boxes to promote their retail acceptance. Consumer electronics manufacturers generally want FCC to force cable industry to switch from proprietary set-tops to interoperable boxes by 2003 or sooner and to adopt open technical standards that don’t favor boxes produced by existing cable equipment manufacturers.