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The FCC Media Bureau seeks comment on TiVo’s...

The FCC Media Bureau seeks comment on TiVo’s request for a waiver of the agency’s home networking digital interface requirement for cable operators that use the company’s set-top boxes, said a public notice issued Friday (http://bit.ly/1rfY1lG). TiVo filed a petition…

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for the waiver, in docket 97-80, saying its set-tops already meet the intent of the home networking requirement “by allowing consumers to send video content throughout their homes” and had that ability before there was an industry standard for such technology, the PN said. TiVo also asked the FCC to clarify that the requirement hadn’t been stripped away by the EchoStar decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Comments on TiVo’s request are due in docket 14-146 Oct. 6 and replies, Oct. 20, the PN said.