He also standardized the guts of LCDs, navigational gear, black boxes, instrument landing systems and weather radar, sharing technologies and components.

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Set-top boxes will be on display from industry leaders such as General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta.

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Meanwhile, General Instrument, based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, stuck to older-design analog boxes.

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