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End Run (Forbes.com) [via http://news.yahoo.com]
Cable television may have 500 channels to pick from, but chances are excellent that only one of two companies makes your set-top box: Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta. Since the early 1980s these two have controlled the $4-billion-a-year box business, keeping out giants such as Sony, Toshiba and RCA. Scientific-Atlanta has 40% of the market to Motorola's 60%.
Cable television may have 500 channels to pick from, but chances are excellent that only one of two companies makes your set-top box: Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta. Since the early 1980s these two have controlled the $4-billion-a-year box business, keeping out giants such as Sony, Toshiba and RCA. Scientific-Atlanta has 40% of the market to Motorola's 60%.
All PVR manufacturers (TiVo, Moxi, Sony, among others) seem to have set their sights on the huge installed base of cable and satellite subscribers. It makes perfect sense for the cable/sat companies who are desperate to increase revenues and decrease churn (customers cancelling their service). Consider that without DirecTV for example TiVo may have been long dead.
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