that really protect that content on behalf of virtually all the content providers from hbo and showtitime. now we have a whole new generation of boxes that are bringing in internet content, and those are roku boxes and apple tv boxes, and products like that. you even have smart tvs without boxes that can bring in content, but in many cases, there are limitations if you don't have any box at all. mr. slen: with encryption and security, as a gotten tougher, with more and more use of the internet in delivering signals? mr. tayer: well, the internet has its own versions of security and encryption, more and software. -- more in software. but as long as were on the topic of encryption let's go back 25 years he cousin wanted to make a point about general instruments. we were really the first company outside the military that dealt with the nsa, because we were encrypting tv signals. at the time, we had a running joke that nsa stood for no such agency because no one was quite sure they existed at the time in the 1980's. but they used to come visit us in san diego, and our security engineers of vi