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LG Electronics has unveiled digital cable-ready (DCR) TVs in the U.S. market, spurring its inroads into the North American market which represents 40% of the world’s digital TV demand. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>LG Electronics has started to sell digital cable-ready 42-inch PDP TVs at Best Buy, the U.S.’s largest electronic goods sales chain. The DCR TV dubbed 'Plug & Play' does not require a set-top box and can receive digital broadcasts by inserting a
cable card and connecting it to cable. <BR><BR>As of July this year, 50% of 36-inch DTV models and over produced by digital TV manufacturers for sale in the U.S. are required to be digital cable ready in order to penetrate the world’s largest digital TV market. This mandate is in accordance with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s regulations on digital cable-ready TVs released in 2003 stating that terrestrial and digital cable TVs should be equipped with terrestrial and digital cable broadcast-receiving tuners and cable cards. Starting in July 2005, all 36-inch TVs and over are required to do so, all 25-inch TVs and over are mandated to do so starting in June 2006, and all 13-inch TVs and over are obliged to do so starting in July 2007.</FONT></P>
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