Unlike my experiences at CES, people actually attend sessions at The Cable Show. Maybe it’s because of the cool new demos. Yesterday at Leslie Ellis’s tru2way panel, Time Warner Cable previewed its concept Symphony guide, an EPG with slick graphics and interactive features. Unfortunately, the video above doesn’t do it justice. The lighting in the room wasn’t great, and I was trying to take photos at the same time, but it does give you the gist. I love what Time Warner is calling the “viewing cart”. You can put videos there and come back to them later. You’ll also see telescoping ads in the demo here, widgets and detailed content info. Truthfully, it’s not unlike Verizon’s guide. There’s definitely a trend underway to improve EPGs.
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I planned on sitting in on this session, but was sick as a dog at the time. Looks much more interesting than the ones I saw.
Now, I don’t have TW, but given that a lof of people usually diss cable companies’ DVRs, wouldn’t they be better off working on that? No amount of interface eye-candy is good enough to make-up for DVR not actually working properly.
Well the DVR’s most likely don’t work because of poorly written software that was rushed to get the product out the door. The hardware specs are there, they just need good software to run the things. I’m quite surprised as the amount of eye candy on that demo. Stuff faded in/out, cover art rotated like an apple tv type interfaces, there was high resolution graphics, etc… That must be running on a next generation set top box, or media PC.