Pay TV providers in the US lost subscribers for the first time ever over the 12 months ending in March:

Pay TV is hurting, and even skeptics now admit cord cutting could be at fault
By Janko Roettgers, GigaOM - May 20, 2013
»gigaom.com/2013/05/20/cord-cutting-q1-2013/

Senator John McCain has introduced a bill that aims to fix a number of problems in the Cable TV industry:

McCain bill takes aim at cable practices
By Brian Santo, CED Magazine – May 10, 2013
»www.cedmagazine.com/news/2013/05···ractices

See: »Comcast Accelerates Encryption of Basic Cable

See article ---> »New Comcast 'X1' Set Top Heads to Philly

As of today (Dec 13th), the FCC begins enforcement of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, which requires that the volume remain at a consistent level across programming and commercials. It applies to both OTA TV stations and Cable/Satellite companies.

Loudness law goes into effect
By Michael Grotticelli, Broadcast Engineering - December 13, 2012
»broadcastengineering.com/regulat···s-effect

See article ---> »Comcast Compensates Woman For Exploding Cable Box

See article ---> »Comcast's Network DVR Clears the FCC

See article ---> »Comcast's X1 Set Top Heads to Philly

See article here.

»www.fiercecable.com/story/motoro···internal

»www.fiercecable.com/story/comcas···nternal

»www.multichannel.com/blogs/bit-r···gateways

»links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=8&ms=ND···=1&rt=0

Note: This is a FierceCable story. Comcast has been looking at CCAP for a while.

»www.multichannel.com/news-articl···o/139477

See article ---> »Comcast To Soon Allow External DVR Drive Storage

»www.fiercecable.com/story/angela···internal

See article ---> »Verizon Patent Hints at Network DVR

See article ---> »New Comcast Patent Filing Hints at Network DVR

»www.fiercecable.com/story/comcas···internal

Comcast is currently finishing up their HD-DTA field trial and is planning on deploying them later this year:

Comcast closes in on HD DTA deployments
By Mike Robuck, CED Magazine - August 17, 2012
»www.cedmagazine.com/news/2012/08···loyments