CableLabs wants to ensure the industry's video dominance by making it easy for subscribers and consumer electronics manu-facturers to interface with the cable pipe. The plan hinges on the orga-nization's OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), said CableLabs execs at its media briefing in May. Going forward, to access content, subscribers with "cable-ready" consumer electronics can simply plug into the cable, and the information will be downloaded based on a universal conditional access (CA) that covers myriad encryption formats.
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