[EAS] Cross post about cable override

[Richard Rudman]

I wanted to cross post part of a thread I commented on the SBE list in response to a comment by Ed Czarnecki...

Richard
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And Ed is 100% right!

This is why SBE and others tried to get the FCC to do something about this before the current generation of cable override equipment and set top boxes was installed.

Replacing this equipment would be be as you correctly point out not possible in the short term. 

I think the question on the floor is,  if long term, the FCC should, for the good of a national public at risk, lay out a timetable for blanket override equipment replacement to eventually take place?

The larger question is, do we and the government, as EAS stakeholder partners, want to fix something that we knew was going to be a problem years ago that could eventually be fixed down the road in the next cable equipment replacement cycle?

Richard

On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Ed Czarnecki wrote:

>Richard - there is no "selective override equipment" in the sense of slapping in a new server or router or what have you.  In many cases of the addition of a selective override capability would mean a wholesale replacement an enormous amount of cable plant - from digital control systems down to hundreds of thousands if not millions of set top boxes.