Cable

摘要

The FCC Media Bureau should grant EchoStar's request for a waiver of the commission's analogntuner requirements for the company’s new DVR, and should do so “no later than" Sept. 1, the companynsaid in a comment filed Monday (http://bit.ly/14prApf). The deadline is important to allow EchoStar tonoffer its HD internet-enabled Channel Master K77 before fall retail line-ups are finalized, the companynsaid. EchoStar said fulfilling the analog requirement would increase the weight, energy consumption andncost of the K77, which is intended to combine over-the-air broadcast content with streaming content fromnproviders such as Vudu and Pandora “in a sleek, ultra-thin, energy-efficient form factor.” An analog tunernon the device isn’t needed because customers will be able to access analog channels through their TV’sntuner, EchoStar said. No objections to the waiver were filed in response to the bureau’s public notice onnthe matter by the reply comment deadline, which was Friday.