It’s that time of year again. We’re more than halfway to the holiday shopping season and CES 2008, which means CE companies are starting to panic about what they can get on to store shelves or at least out of production in time to take advantage of the year’s biggest buying season and biggest PR … Read more
Between my various work-related missions in NYC the last two weeks, I managed to sneak away to Digeo‘s suite for a briefing on their two upcoming Moxi stand-alone DVRs. Moxi Home Cinema HD DMR Digeo had a working prototype of the Moxi Home Cinema unit on display. This is their higher-end (read: more expensive) model … Read more
Looks like some of those upcoming AT&T U-verse features actually won’t be making an appearance any time soon: Photos, VoIP, U-Bar, Yellow Pages (Q4, 2007) 2 HD Streams, Pair Bonding, iNID (Q2, 2008) Whole Home DVR (Q3, 2008) Caller ID on TV (Q4, 2008) Though, the most interesting new DVR interface/functionality I want to check … Read more
Yes, I’m still here in Vegas and have a decent amount of stuff to share! I was briefed on the Comcast-Motorola-TiVo box and Digeo’s upcoming boxes. Yahoo also has some interesting stuff in the works and of course there’s the Xbox 360 as IPTV ‘cable’ box news. It’s just a matter of finding some time … Read more
According to a letter the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) submitted to the FCC, TiVo is working on an Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) port. Long term, this seems like an inevitable software engineering initiative if TiVo plans to continue working with the likes of Comcast and Cox. Multiple guides, multiple VOD applications, switched … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… Sling Media partners with UK mobile provider: Sling Community The story of CableLabs certification: Chris Lanier Digeo-Gemstar battle continues: PVRWire 1080p not “an important factor” in HDTV purchases: EngadgetHD Disney sells 5 million copies of Cars in 48 hours: AppleInsider
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 … Read more
The story so far… September, 2006 Digeo, maker of the Moxi DVR, files an antitrust lawsuit against Gemstar, the TV Guide electronic/interactive programming guide folks, as described in the Seattle Times: The rivalry between Digeo and Gemstar surfaced Thursday in federal court in Seattle, where Digeo filed a lawsuit claiming that Gemstar violated federal and … Read more