Lee succeeds Laurie Schwartz Priddy, who joined AT&T Broadband & Internet Services, and is now president and CEO of the National Digital Television Center (NDTC). "Lisa is eminently qualified to head this project and I was pleased to work with her as part of the CableLabs team. I look forward to continuing to work with her in her new role, as the NDTC continues to follow and to participate actively in the OpenCable initiative," Schwartz said.

"The cable industry is very grateful to Laurie Schwartz for her contributions to the OpenCable effort. She has done a remarkable job in developing the industry technical consensus necessary to achieve retail availability of set-top boxes," said Bill Schleyer, a member of the CableLabs Executive Committee and the Board of Directors level leader of the OpenCable project. "Fortunately, Laurie in her new position at AT&T, will continue to play a key role in the development of our industry’s digital initiatives," Schleyer said.

OpenCable is a fast-track initiative of the cable television industry, managed through CableLabs, with a goal of attaining interoperable digital set-top boxes manufactured by multiple vendors. These devices would be capable of delivering digital video, data and interactive services to a television set. The capability also may be built into consumer electronics devices such as digital television sets.

The OpenCable™ initiative has a number of components. First, it is the process that will define advanced digital devices, including set tops. Second, it is a blueprint for a way of delivering a series of advanced services to consumers; third, it is a family of cable digital devices; and fourth, it is a consumer brand.