When a casual session with reporters following his appearance at the NBA Tech Summit turned to a la carte pricing and set-top box limitations, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin offered his usual example of what’s wrong: cable. But when he was reminded — ok, by me, since I have a DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) that’s functionally crippled — that cable isn’t alone when it comes to limiting services and access on set-tops or alone on programming prices, Martin insisted, “I’m not picking on cable … cable is the easiest analogy. You
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