CableCARD. The technology that would allow any manufacturer to make a product that would interface with satellite and cableTV programming, including pay per view and digital channels. It was a brilliant idea, perfect in its implications and freeing up of market forces to produce excellent set-top boxes and solutions for consumers. Except that, like the Tiger Woods Center for Marriage Enrichment, it failed miserably. Not to worry, the FCC plans to step in and bring consumers something that will allow them to stream media to their televisions in ways that will open up the market to innovation and new forms of hardware and software that will bring all manner of content to living room televisions... as if that weren't already happening on its own.
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