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How The Cable Industry Plans to Cheat 10+ Million HDTV Owners-an HD GURU™ Investigative Report

In 1996 Congress passed the Telecommunications Act, which included a provision requiring cable companies to move cable security (descrambling) to external devices. The purpose was to break the cablebox duopoly and to open up a competitive market for cableboxes, as well as for televisions with built-in cable tuning and descrambling capabilities.
The external device was given […]