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CES: Cable industry shows support for OCAP
The cable TV industry held a press conference at CES to show off the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) and their progress. In case you weren't paying attention, this is what will allow...
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New DVR coming from Comcast and Panasonic
Your old Moto 6412 DVR from Comcast might soon be replaced with state of the art HD set-top boxes from Panasonic. The new cable boxes will encode in both MPEG-2 and H.264. It has USB 2.0 for connecting...
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Philips patent app would force you to watch commercials, both live and recorded
In a move that would surely delight advertisers but enrage consumers, Philips is trying to patent a method for flagging digital TV content to not only prevent viewers from changing the channel during...
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LG's OCAP-equipped 42PC1DN HD plasma on the way
Looking for a dash of DRM right on your television set, without having to turn to your cable or satellite provider? LG has just the thing, as it's finally getting set to drop a 42-inch HD plasma that...
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Samsung and Cox get friendly over OCAP
It was exactly a year ago today that cable companies were getting all warm and fuzzy with OCAP, saying they were meant to be together and couldn't do without one another. Of course, once CES 2006...
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LG & Zodiac showing off OCAP UI
Samsung & Cox aren't the only ones working together with OCAP, LG and Zodiac Interactive are demoing two-way interactive digital cable services on LG's OCAP-compliant HDTV. The user interface is...
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Samsung launches HL-S5686C iDCR DLP TV, TWC goes OCAP
Although last year's lovefest with OCAP was short lived after CES concluded, it seems that we're actually seeing the fruits of Samsung, Time Warner, and Advance/Newhouse Communications' labor towards...
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Motorola ships CableCARD STBs
It isn't very long till the next deadline in the long road we call the digital transition. This next step will either be really big or really bad. While most people will agree that CableCARDs aren't...
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Cable providers shun HDTV at 2007 Cable Show
The constant struggle for cable companies to crank out more HD channels with an increasingly limited amount of bandwidth rolled right on through the 2007 Cable Show conference in Las Vegas, as a keen...
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There is no CableCARD 2.0
With the July 1st CableCARD mandate right around the corner, we have really wanted to know how the cable companies are going to continue to provide VOD -- and other bi-directional services -- without...
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CableCARD 2.0: What's the hold up?
Last week we learned that CableCARD 2.0 is a specification (not a physical device) that would allow consumer electronics companies to sell bi-directional CableCARD hosts that would work on any cable...
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CableCARD 2.0 is ready
In the past week we have been on a quest to make sense of this entire CableCARD mess. We started out by talking to Motorola which was great, but left us even more confused, so we decided to go...
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Are CableCARDs a success?
When we think of CableCARDs we think of all the problems we've had, from installers who have no idea what they're doing to cable providers refusing to install them. But, if we think about the original...
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Cable's bandwidth quagmire
Most people think going digital means going HD, but we know all too well that this couldn't be further from the truth. One thing that going digital does mean is more efficient use of the limited...
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Time Warner Cable deploys 150k OpenCable STBs, aka CableCARD 2.0
Most of us have been confused about why our CableCARD host devices don't support two-way services, and it's been wildly misunderstood that we were waiting for CableCARD 2.0. The truth is that...
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CableCARD 2.0's identity crisis
It is commonly misunderstood that we've been waiting for CableCARD 2.0 in order to have two way communications between our cable host device and our cable co'. We've talked about how this just isn't...
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Motorola's new lineup of MPEG4 HD STBs
Moto's VP was just saying that MPEG4 would take over cable too, and so it begins with its first MPEG4 STB. This new lineup of cable set-top boxes will have all the bells and whistles including; MPEG2,...
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Hands-on with Motorola DCX series MPEG-4 cable STB
We got a chance to touch Motorola's sexy new 250GB DCX series MPEG-4 / Dolby Digital Plus / MoCa / OCAP cable STB tonight. You already know the important information so we'll get you to the in the...
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OpenCable officially becomes tru2way
In the latest episode of as the cable industry turns, the rumors that CableLabs would rename OpenCable to tru2Way are indeed true. For those keeping track at home, once upon a time the world dreamed...
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TiVo still working on a DVR with two-way features like VOD
Hi-def and DVRs go together like peanut butter and jelly, but even with all the great DVRs available today, none are perfect. TiVo offers the best overall user experience and features, but lacks a few...
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