Tag Archives: cable TV

Are Set-Top Boxes Finally Ready For Disruption? (It’s the User Interface, Stupid!)

Posted by Nov 5, 2015 Innovation, Intellectual Property, Project DisCo, Technology Law , , , , , , , , , , ,
Are Set-Top Boxes Finally Ready For Disruption? (It’s the User Interface, Stupid!)

One of the most perplexing issues in communications policy — with a convoluted 20-year history — is that of the cable television set-top box. We may finally be on the verge of a new era where the user interface is more important than that archaic box.

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No Dodgers, No Merger

Posted by Aug 27, 2014 Competition, Regulation, Sports , , , , ,
No Dodgers, No Merger

The anticompetitive effects of vertical integration by cable systems have now reached crisis proportions with the ongoing refusal — already more than five months old and with no end in sight — of Time Warner to license Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games for cable or satellite distribution, or local broadcast, on any network other than its own SportsNet LA programming channel.

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