Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This ended up being instantiated with a technology called Cable CARD. The cable company had to give you the option of a CARD you could plug into your own box, rather than just a box. And that created the market opportunity for TiVo. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 14, 2020 Hibernated

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25 years later, this has largely not worked out (which is a story for its own day) but a congressman named Ed Markey got a provision put into the law mandating that cable TV providers make it possible to decode their signals with third-party set-top boxes. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 14, 2020 Hibernated

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After a brief moment in the sun TiVo largely ended up getting crushed by pay TV providers incorporating DVR technology into their first-party boxes. But that’s because they had to compete with TiVo. And that’s because of Ed Markey. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 14, 2020 Hibernated