Cox Loses Lawsuit Saying Cable Box Fees Violate Antitrust Law: The jury awarded the suing subscribers $6.31 million in damages

I hope they have to pay up. It's absurd how much of a hassle it is to get a cable card working with them. It's as if their systems are designed to reject pairings until some magical 10th or 11th attempt, and the tuning adapters are also a messy solution.

Let me OWN a box of my own. Better yet, just build in MAC addresses on TVs and let them tune like analog used to. Add it like a modem and be done with it. If you want to record, make those devices do the same thing. Add the "MAC address" (or whatever #), and authorize the box to tune in.

"Cable ready" was a great thing. TVs "just worked" for many years. All they need to do is tweak QAM tuners to include a MAC address that's the equivalent to a cable card, and be done with it. Plug in cable, authorize it, tune in TV channels.

Same goes for tuners / whatever little box you can get. Let people authorize them as easily as a cable modem, and tune/record the channels they get.

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