Boomer Esiason was Motorola’s Follow Me TV pitchman at yesterday’s press event in NYC. Follow Me TV consists of DVR web scheduling, multi-room viewing between set-top boxes within the home, media streaming from a PC to set-top box, and content offloading for playback on portable devices such as cell phones. Multi-room viewing is already active on Verizon’s FiOS TV, though neither Verizon nor traditional cable companies have integrated the other features at this time. Like Digeo’s Moxi, Moto may have a hard time convincing the lumbering cable cos these value-added features enhance the user experience and thus loyalty. Perhaps that’s why they felt the need to hold a press conference…
Side note: Who knew Boomer was a tech savvy guy?
FYI Motorola is one of the companies I consult for and I was at this event as part of the team. Though I made sure to take several photos and even shot a video for Dave.
What was I thinking titling this Boomer Pitches? Boomer Quarterbacks would have been more appropriate! ;)
F Boomer, and the Jets.
Scepticism appropriate. Motorola, Scientific Atlanta and others have lots of capabilities in their boxes that aren’t ever going to be enabled by the “lumbering” cable MSO’s. Firewire ports, multi-room viewing, iPod integration, music/photo/video playback, etc etc. Some of this may show up with your cable co someday, but it’ll be on the MSO’s timeline, not MOTs.