Google May Gain at Comcast Expense as FCC Mulls Cable-Box Revamp

  • Regulators begin writing rules to expose boxes to competition
  • `This can completely change the ecosystem' in pay TV: analyst
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The cable box as you know it may go the way of VCRs and eight-track tapes.

That would be great news for tech companies devising new ways to deliver entertainment to your living room -- and spell trouble for the companies that gets billions of dollars from renting the boxes that connect TVs to cable channels.