...passed, as reported by Multichannel News . With both major vendors' Tuning Adapters certified, cable MSOs should be able to soon begin offering them to customers soon to support Switched Digital Video (SDV). This is a little bit behind schedule, the Tuning Resolver (as the Tuning Adapter was then known) was expected in 2Q08 . But even coming in a few months late it has been an impressively quick development...
When I reported on the release of the 9.4 software for the TiVo Series3 & TiVo HD on Tuesday, I speculated on whether the update also included the promised YouTube support . Well, that question has...video between TiVo units, or from a PC to a TiVo. I'm still waiting to receive 9.4 myself, can't wait to play with this. (And no Dave, you're not the only one still waiting for Tekzilla. ;-)
...approach to at least a subset of what Teach TiVo provided. But that's not all, exploring the menus has revealed some additional features . First and foremost, support for the Switched DigitalVideo (SDV) Tuning Adapter is here! Both Motorola and Cisco/Scientific Atlanta has their TAs scheduled for certification testing by CableLabs at the end of June. So if they passed testing we could see cable MSOs...
The TV Barn blog has posted a letter Time Warner Cable sent out to customers in Kansas City, MO. It announces that they intend to begin migrating "lesser-viewedchannels" to SDV beginning August 20, 2008. They've done a fairly decent job providing information and being non-alarmist, it looks like they've cribbed from a recent letter sent out by Cox . The TWC letter reads, in part: The current generation...
...Bilson sent me a tip about a letter he'd received from Cox Communications in Phoenix, AZ, which he posted about in his blog and scanned into PDF . The big news is that Cox will be implementingSDV of July 1,2008. The bigger news is that later this year they will be offering Tuning Adapters to their users - FREE! I believe this is the first time we've heard of any firm pricing plans from...
TiVo and the NCTA have dropped a press release announcing their progress in developing the SDV Tuning Adapter - as the Motorola and Cisco boxes recently seen at The Cable Show. Since this is a critical issue and of interest to a lot of readers, the full press release is below. May 19, 2008 08:00 ET NCTA and TiVo Announce Progress on Switched Digital Adapter for TiVo DVRs SDVsolutions...
Following up on his report on the Motorola MTR700 , Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD has posted photos of the corresponding Cisco/Scientific Atlanta STA1520 Tuning Adapter . While Motorola's TA was part of...has the same connections, the Cisco box is physically much larger than the Motorola TA. And while Motorola indicated that their TA could be available to cable MSOs in July, Cisco is only saying 3Q2008
EngadgetHD is down at The Cable Show and Ben Drawbaugh (the lucky SOB) got a little hands-on time with the Motorola MTR700 Tuning Adapter for SDV. It seems that CableLabs has decided to start calling such devices 'Tuning Adapters' instead of the previous 'Tuning Resolver'. (I prefer Tuning Resolver, such is life.) The MTR700 was named before the change, which makes me wonder if they'll rename it...
...your Motorola Cable Card(s) into an office today and we'll give you HBO free and a converter free for 3 months. I would bet good money that this means they're implementing Switched Digital Video (SDV). But instead of explaining that, they're trying to scare CableCARD users into returning them and switching to a cable STB. Another, far less likely, possibility is that they're switching the head...
Following quickly after Motorola unveiled their MTR700 Tuning Resolver , Cisco has unveiled their tuning resolver as well , the STA1520, which looks like their RTG100 cable box. (Remember, Cisco purchased...be demo'd at the upcoming Cable Show, and it will be part of the Wave 60 certification process with CableLabs, so it too could be available by early July. Via Light Reading's Cable Digital News
