> Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution The cheaper solutio

> Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution The cheaper solution is to let their customers suffer the outage. Android-based STBs are not the most profitable of businesses (their business model is to aggregate copyright-infringing streams from the Internet and slap a self-contained UI on top of that). They're like $20 a pop delivered.