Tuesday, March 11, 2014

TiVo to Congress: Leave Integrated Set-Top Ban Alone

<p>Saying the National Cable &amp; Telecommunications Association is trying to "freeze out" retail competition, TiVo senior VP and general counsel Matthew Zinn plans to tell Congress that it should not allow a provision in the STELA bill that would "undermine the retail market for set-top boxes and deprive consumers of choice."</p><p>It says the provision has no place in the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act.</p><p>That is according to Zinn's written testimony for a March 12 hearing in the House Communications Subcommittee on a draft of the bill that includes eliminating the FCC ban on integrated set-top boxes (Cable ops would no longer have to use CableCARD security add-ons).</p><p>Zinn said that while he would ordinarily not be opining on a satellite bill, he was weighing in because of a "completely unrelated provision that was slipped in to the STELA reauthorization legislation pushed by a cable lobbying group to eliminate choice in how consumers watch cable programming."</p><p><a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/tivo-congress-leave-integrated-set-top-ban-alone/129725">Keep reading...</a></p>

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