They do allow third parties to use their 5th gen chipset, but only as part of LG's complete RF front end block assembly. Therefore, if you want the 5th gen chip, you take LG's crappy RF front end to go with it. (Or try to lift the chips off of the thousands of assembled units you buy from LG to stick into your own RF design.) Why? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > If LG allows this, you'd think they'd let regular ole STB manufacturers > use their demod. > > Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.