After three years of painstaking work and multiple delays, Comcast will begin marketing TiVo, not as a DVR, but as an interface via a premium software upgrade for its DVR customers in the Boston area. It would be rolled out to rest of Comcast customers later this year, the company says. This is also the first deployment based on “tru2way” cable OS system (earlier called OpenCable Platform), supposed to be interoperable among all cable providers, and meant as a joint effort against the threat of satellite and IPTV operators. The OS runs on digital cable set-top boxes and other devices, and major cable operators are just now beginning to deploy it. It is also the first time Tivo software has been ported on someone else’s box...in this case it is a Motorola box working on Comcast.http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-tivo-finally-launches-on-comcast-as-a-software-upgrade-bugs-still-being/
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