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zonereyrie in tivolovers

TiVo And Alticast Team Up

Apr 09, 2009 13:04

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... )

ocap, press release, alticast, bd-j, tru2way

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a few industry notes jeffbonin April 13 2009, 19:16:55 UTC

While MHP may have quite a few deployments today (10M by some accounts) OCAP/tru2way is definitely on the faster growth curve. All the US operators have pledged their continued support of the tru2way standard, and Time Warner Cable has deployed well over 2M boxes based on the standard already. If you add the Korean market (which has been using OCAP/tru2way since 2005), the total number of tru2way devices deployed today already exceeds 3.5M.

But its not really a competition, since the technologies are so complementary, as you've indicated. We too see a lot of future products where a Blu-ray Disc player can contain tru2way technology, turning a BD player into a TiVo (or vice versa). And we also see ways to enable TiVo technology in MHP-networks as well.

Jeff Bonin
Alticast, Inc.

Re: a few industry notes zonereyrie April 14 2009, 11:14:17 UTC

Thanks very much for the response, I love to see companies that keep an eye on their online presence.

Would you mind if I reposted this on the original blog post? (Or feel free to post it there yourself, of course.) GizmoLovers.com is kind of my primary posting location, I re-post TiVo-related content here as I run this community as well.