The cost of the plastic box under your television has risen 185% while computers and cellphones have dropped 90%. Regulators think it’s time for change The cable box,that repulsive plastic contraption that squats under your TV, is under threat.
At present, and nearly every US household that wants to descramble digital cable signals and send them to the television needs one of those boxes. And they don’t advance free – they’re approximately $7.43 per month. Not a living wage,certainly, but probably more than the box deserves for sitting there and unenthusiastically displaying the channel number, or occasionally recording the new X-Files.
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Source: theguardian.com