Comcast Offers Trial Of Microsoft TV Software 194
Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica has a news article about Comcast and Microsoft announcing an agreement to test digital TV services using the "Microsoft TV Interactive Program Guide (IPG)". The trial is scheduled to start this fall using Motorola DCT2000 set-top boxes. The software is designed to help network operators get more value from on-demand and other digital TV services." There are some more details in an article over at CNET News.
TimeWarner is apparently giving it a go too ... (Score:3, Informative)
Guess AOL and MS are all buddy-buddy now that the whole Netscape "misunderstanding" is behind them.
DCT Software (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Informative)
The thing is, it was the WebTV client that caused most of the havoc, but I didn't even subscribe to WebTV - I was in it for the PVR functionality.
Supposedly the OS is a stripped-down FreeBSD. But that's just hearsay from DBSForums.
Re:great...and still no TiVo from Comcast... (Score:3, Informative)
With that kind of money talking, Comcast could give a shit about TiVo, shareholder or not.
~Philly
A Few DCT Facts (Score:2, Informative)
Re:DCT Software (Score:3, Informative)
Before you spew pure crap from your mouth please get a clue as to what you are talking about.
The DCT 5000 is much faster because it has a much faster processor, more ram and can multitask because many of the subsystems are seperated and based on newer technology.
Cable descramblers are not changed every 7 minutes to the latest technology they are based on something that works and from 1997-1998.
If you can do better, go make your own cable box... IE: put up or shut up.
Microsoft TV Foundation (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Again. (Score:3, Informative)
You're obviously not a Comcast customer. Hell, you may not even be a consumer in the real world making a statement like that.
The only change is the color scheme! (Score:1, Informative)
All the ad spaces are still there. The system is still extremely slow. There are channels with the same wrong programming information.
For anyone hoping that the new MS system is going to be better than what you have now, you're in for a rude awakening. I can always take some digicam screenshots of the TV if anyone's interested.
~rick