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The Government will be forcing cable companies to decouple their encryption devices from the user Set Top Box. If I understand the concept correctly, a generic STB will accept a Cable Card type device to customize it to a particular cable system.
http://www.cedmagazine.com/article/CA6395720.html
So why should the same mandate not apply to DBS? A satellite STB consists of a radio receiver, logic processor and interface to the TV. Why can't a system specific logic processor module customize a DBS box to accept E*, D* or whatever?
Cable providers have been providing subscribers with custom STBs for years so I really don't understand the purpose of this crusade. Why are the expense and hardships associated with the conversions being unilaterally levied on the cable industry?
--- CHAS
http://www.cedmagazine.com/article/CA6395720.html
So why should the same mandate not apply to DBS? A satellite STB consists of a radio receiver, logic processor and interface to the TV. Why can't a system specific logic processor module customize a DBS box to accept E*, D* or whatever?
Cable providers have been providing subscribers with custom STBs for years so I really don't understand the purpose of this crusade. Why are the expense and hardships associated with the conversions being unilaterally levied on the cable industry?
--- CHAS