Thisarticleincorporatesallthetechtalk; the nexttwoarticleswillfocus on the business; first, for the initialservices and then for the maintenanceandexploitation of those services.
The NCTA has already starting posturing on its blog, Cable TechTalk, with a post highlighting all the wonderful changes in the video distribution industry in the past 20 years -- however, curiously, the upwardly creeping price of the average bill wasn't mentioned.