Cable

摘要

TiVo attorneys met with FCC officials last week to discuss the importance of the agency's Cable-nCARD rules. Some of those rules were thrown into question last week by the D.C. Circuit (See separatenreport in this issue). "Weakening CableCARD rules via waivers, lack of enforcement, or other meansnhurts innovation and retail choice, undercutting the Commission's policies," an ex parte notice describingnthe meetings said (http://xrl.us/bobd4a). TiVo's lawyers also "discussed the growing use of IP signals innall forms of delivery of video to the home, and the need for a successor standard to CableCARD that ensuresnthe continued availability of signals in an IP world," it said.