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To: Ron Mayer who wrote (35601)	8/31/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) of 50808

Cable is not ready to handle digital TV............ eet.com <<Yet 1394 may be the least of the problems faced by designers of digital TV systems. Other unresolved issues-what some engineers are calling the "dirty secrets of DTV"-center on adequate definition of conditional access systems for terrestrial digital broadcasts, including strategies for implementing such systems as removable conditional-access modules in DTVs or set-tops and mechanisms for ensuring copy protection at the set-top/module interface. Conditional access involves "complex implementation issues," said Chris Adams, vice president of marketing for the Consumer Network Products Division of C-Cube Microsystems. With copy protection and encryption issues unresolved, the first-generation DTV receivers scheduled to debut this Christmas appear to be designed on the assumption that viewers are more likely to receive over-the-air DTV broadcasts via antenna than to receive signals via cable. Further, because they will lack terrestrial-DTV conditional-access systems, first-generation DTV tuner/decoder boxes, priced as high as $1,700, will be doomed to obsolescence within a few years, when network TV studios start broadcasting some programs using encrypted DTV signals.>>

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