Sony has made an agreement with six major cable companies, including Comcast, to eliminate the need for customers to lease cable boxes for their television sets, according to an article on KYW1060.com.

Sony has agreed to make their newest television sets with the features built-in so that cable subscribers can get all of the services by simply inserting a card into the set.

Comcast and five other cable companies have reached an agreement with Sony that will eliminate the need for customers to lease set top boxes. That should mean savings for customers.

Brian Dietz of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association: “Cable operators are in the business of providing services and they don’t see themselves as equipment vendors so I think operators are interested in reducing the number of set top boxes that they provide to consumers overall.”

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