TiVo Alticast last month announced that they will work together to make it easier to bring TiVo's software and services to set top boxes. Alticast is a vendor if middleware for Java-based DVB-MHP, OCAP/tru2way technology and Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J). They're all ways to implement software independent of the host hardware - both tru2way and BD-J ( Read more... )

Despite some ongoing issues, it looks like the Comcast TiVo software is heading to Chicago. Dave Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny caught this in Comcast's earnings call today: We are rolling out TiVo beyond the Boston market test, where things are going quite well and we are going to be introducing other cities, probably starting with Chicago in the ( Read more... )

In what can't be a good sign for the progress of the TiVo software for Comcast, CNET's Matthew Elliott has posted in their Crave blog that he's finally given up in frustration and returned to using the standard non-TiVo Comcast DVR. He first starting using the TiVo software May, and while his initial impression was favorable overall, he had some ( Read more... )

Comcast subscriberOops, correction, he's not a subscriber he just lives in their territory. Peter Ting of Dover, MA recently received a flier from Comcast in the mail promoting the TiVo DVR software. He was kind enough to scan it and send it to me. I did a little trimming and resizing. Click on the images for larger versions.

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In a filing yesterday with the FCC on the current status on CableCARD deployments the NCTA revealed that there have been a total of over 374,000 CableCARDs deployed for use in Unidirectional Digital Cable Products (UDCPs), such as the TiVo HD, by the ten largest cable MSOs, which cover roughly 90% of US cable subscribers. That may sound like a lot ( Read more... )

TiVo today reported their financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended July 31st. They had a good quarter, turning in their second profitable quarter in a row, and their third ever, with $2.9 million net income and $10.6 million adjusted EBITDA. TiVo highlighted a few items in their release: - Adjusted EBITDA for the ( Read more... )

At the end of May I mentioned that CNET's Matthew Elliott had started using the Comcast TiVo software, and at the time he was having some issues with it. Well, he's posted again in CNET's Crave blog and he hasn't been having a good experience. Comcast and TiVo still haven't released the promised update for the poor performance. On top of that, ( Read more... )

The CableTechTalk blog has a very nice post up today about CableCARD and tru2way. While the blog is run by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and the post in question was written by Paul Rodriguez, Director of Online Content for the NCTA, so you might expect some editorial slant, I thought it was a nice, factual article. ( Read more... )

One of the major issues for the Comcast TiVo deployment has been the need for a truck roll. The software development was predicated on the ability of the cable MSO to remotely deploy the software without the need to send out a technician. But that didn't quite work when Comcast started deploying the software, the infrastructure for remote ( Read more... )

CNET's Matthew Elliott just had the Comcast TiVo software installed yesterday and he's blogged about his first 24 hours with the software at CNET's Crave blog. Overall he seems happy with it, except for the performance. The slowness of the TiVo Comcast software is something that is oft mentioned, and both TiVo and Comcast have stated that they ( Read more... )