Very interesting info, and it will be fascinating to see what happens over the rest of the year with the 3rd-party STB suppliers, CE manufacturers, and Vista. The next-to-last paragraph makes no sense until it has been cleaned up and copy-edited:
"We can certainly respect the cable companies desire to control their networks; after all they do own it, they do have a business to run, and rogue two-way CableCARD devices could cause a lot of havoc. While CableLabs is complying with the law, we don't think it is in the spirit of the law, because it does not introduce a truly open platform, and at some point the cable companies need to realize that what's good for their customers is good for their business."
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Very interesting info, and it will be fascinating to see what happens over the rest of the year with the 3rd-party STB suppliers, CE manufacturers, and Vista. The next-to-last paragraph makes no sense until it has been cleaned up and copy-edited:
"We can certainly respect the cable companies desire to control their networks; after all they do own it, they do have a business to run, and rogue two-way CableCARD devices could cause a lot of havoc. While CableLabs is complying with the law, we don't think it is in the spirit of the law, because it does not introduce a truly open platform, and at some point the cable companies need to realize that what's good for their customers is good for their business."