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January 18, 2007
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Brad Stone
International Herald Tribune
01-18-2007
Adam Gillitt does not hate what is on his television as much as he dislikes what is attached to it.Gillitt, a graphic designer from Alameda, California, is exasperated by his high-definition cable box, made by the technology giant Motorola and leased to him by his local cable provider, Comcast. The $10-a-month device, he says, has a poorly designed electronic program guide and responds slowly, or not at all, to commands from the remote control.''Paying for something this awful hurts,'' Gillitt said.For many Americans, the cable box still commonly called the set-top box, though it is now too big to balance on top of increasingly thin ...

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