A federal appellate court has struck down a series of decade-old FCC-encoding guidelines designed to pave the way for “plug and play” televisions that do not require set-top boxes for cable and ...

(CN) - The D.C. Circuit reversed a telecommunication rule that imposes encoding restrictions on all cable and satellite providers, making them vulnerable to unauthorized broadcasts. In 2002, cable ...

Some applications identify an asset, product or other item with both an RFID tag and a bar code. For this to work, the same unique identifier must be encoded to both the tag and the bar code. But ...