Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola's lock on the television set-top box market looks safe for now. So mud for free choice. By now consumers were supposed to be able to go to a Circuit City or Best Buy and pick up a digital TV set-top box, ready to plug and play."We would like to have an era in this country where anybody can plug in a set-top box just the way that you can buy a telephone today in a retail store and plug it into a phone jack," then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard told reporters three years ago.
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