Government considering installing chips in STBs to monitor what people watch on TVs

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Simply putting chip is not enough. Back channel is also needed to transmit data back to monitoring servers. DTH and Cable are one-way as of now as there is no back-channel which can transmit data backwards. Only IPTV has that capability, else Smart STBs with Internet connectivity is needed for Cable/DTH which would be recording every action done and sending back.
 
Right, that possibility cannot be ignored. But that would increase cost of STB, and operator would have to bear that cost?
 

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