NCTA's Powell: TiVo Just Wrong About CableCARD

National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Michael Powell called "spurious" TiVo’s claim that an agreement between TiVo and Comcast to work on a non-CableCARD retail set-top retail "solution" argues for retaining the ban on integrated security and channel surfing functions in leased boxes.

In a letter to the leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee as it prepares to consider reauthorizing the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act and a House-passed version of the bill that contains a provision lifting the ban, Powell argues for the Senate to follow suit.