The FCC has temporarily waived point-of-deployment POD module compliance for 10 cable operators representing 133 systems. The waivers, which range from several months until Dec. 31, 2001, give operators time to meet rules for devices that separate signal encryption from other features in retail-based hybrid analog/digital set4ops. The operator would...
WASHINGTON -- The cable industry has until the end of this week to comply with federal rules designed to promote the retail sale of set-top boxes. The industry is expected to easily meet the July 1 deadline, and only a few operators...
While cable industry expects to offer interoperable set-tops and other navigation devices by FCC- mandated July 1 deadline, NCTA told Commission that interoperability for hybrid analog-digital boxes won't make that deadline. Cable has long opposed any inclusion of analog boxes in rules. In reconsideration of its order last year,...
WASHINGTON -- The cable industry suffered a setback last week, when Circuit City Stores Inc. called for tighter set-top-box rules than those adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in June. Cable-industry sources said they were hoping WASHINGTON -- The...
WASHINGTON - Call it cable's 'Year 2005" problem. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission banned cable operators from providing set-top boxes with integrated security functions starting Jan. 1,2005 - a mandate that operators will lik WASHINGTON - Call it cable's 'Year 2005" problem....
Cable Opens Retail Set-Top Market Era WASHINGTON -- After listening to regulators beef for years about cable's iron grip on the set-top market, the cable industry entered a new era last week that should someday allow consumers to buy their bo...
- Spectrum Can Be Used for Mobile Video, Mobile TV - FCC Delays 700 MHz Auction by 8 Days Who could have foreseen seven years ago when we began reporting on broadband, home networks and compression technology that those technologies...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Inc. received the required approval Thursday from the Federal Communications Commission for its upcoming iPhone, the company said. The regulatory green light, a standard certification process that any cellular phone must receive before hitting the U.S. market, means the iPhone's launch can now...
Byline: ANDREW HAMPP ahampp@crain.com Last week, Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin and XM Chairman Gary Parsons made headlines by planning to combine their companies' assets into one satellite-radio conglomerate. But getting approval from the FCC is just one of the...
Toshiba, which has its own portable media player, the GigaBeat, will make Microsoft's upcoming iPod challenger that will be called Zune. The GigaBeat has received a lot of praise from industry experts, but few orders. Toshiba refers to the Zune product in a filing with the ...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed. Plans submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba provided a glimpse at the workings of...
PodShow, Inc., the premier brand inpodcasting, announced today the addition of five leading talk shows to itsPodShow Podcast Network; "Pacific Coast Hellway," "Squadcast," "The CreepySleepy Show," "The Think Future Radio Show" and "Trucker Tom's Podcast."Each show debuts with original formats and unique perspectives providing abroad range of the best in...
By Walter S. Ciciora, Ph. D., Recognized Industry Expert on Cable and Consumer Electronics Issues Say it carefully and slowly. We don't want the FCC to fine us! I'd like to take credit for this title, but with all of the lawsuits and...
2006 has been a relatively calm year for the Writers Guild of America, but give it time. Even without a contract negotiation or strike threat, the WGA managed to draw far more attention than normal in 2005, thanks to a far tougher attitude than in the past....
Telco TV and its subset IPTV hung over the attendees at Telecom05, held this week at the stunningly beautiful Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. They hung like both a rainbow, beckoning all to a pot of gold, and a dangling Damocles sword that threatens an uncertain death....
Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN Chicago is tuning out its shock jocks. The loudmouths who've long dominated the local airwaves-Erich "Mancow'' Muller, Steve Dahl and Howard Stern-all saw ratings slide at least 15% among their target audiences this spring, according to quarterly Arbitron...
CHARLIE ROSE, HOST: Welcome to the broadcast. Tonight, Michael Powell, leaving the FCC, talks about his tenure there, how he views technology and his own future. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP MICHAEL POWELL, FCC CHAIRMAN: It`s one of the very fewest regulators in the world that...
iPod Person It took buying an iPod to do it, but Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) says he now understands that consumers really do have a stake in digital copyright issues. Congress weighs tweaking copyright laws to make it clear that fair use is not theft. Cell...
FCC chairman Michael Powell told 3,500 NCTA attendees this week that he considers high-definition TV HDTV a killer app that will lead to major changes in the shape and location of TVs - smaller and bigger TVs that will be integrated into things like tubs - yes,...
OPENCABLE CERTIFIED/QUALIFIED EQUIPMENT CableCARDs Designed to separate out the conditional access systems and encryption elements in OpenCable-based set-tops, televisions and other "hosts," the CableCARD is also a prime component of the FCC-adopted "Plug & Play" agreement. Company ...
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