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Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - Frank Eliason's reply

As I mentioned in the post Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us, Comcast has revised its residential customer services agreement and imposed those revisions on subscribers. Here is a pointer to the revised customer services agreement for those of the legal persuasion. ...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Tru2way, Agreement, Frank Eliason, Frank Eliason Analysis Frank, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-04

First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonic

First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonicadd the DVR and I'm inTruthfully, the most used feature of my cable box is the DVR digital video recorder. I always use the time slipping, and the what did they say quick rewind feature.Without the DVR the cable card is useless to me.

Tags: DVR, Digital video, Cable, digital video recorder, Tru2way, Panasonic, HDTV

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonic

The first generation of CableCards was pretty much a bust, as cable companies didn't want anything to do with the devices, which could replace a set-top box by being installed in TVs or home theater PCs HTPCs. The disinterest was due to the fact that the technology only allowed...

Tags: Panasonic, Tru2way, HDTV, Cable, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Additional Resources

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

With competition from satellite and fiber-optic TV competitors coming from one side, and the Internet from the other, the cable industry needs to deliver new products to keep their subscribers from defecting to the alternatives. At last week's 2009 Cable Show, tru2way technology—an open application platform for set-top box developers—was...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Time Warner Cable Inc., Sling Media, Digital Video Recorder, EchoStar Communications Corp., DVR, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Video, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Interactive Television Is Here Again. Want Anchovies With That?

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You’ve been waiting for more than three decades to “interact” with your television, voting for your favorite local candidate, shopping for shoes, or, of course, ordering a pizza. That was the implicit promise of cable television systems, since the launch...

Tags: Cable Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to us

Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to usJust reply, NO!One of our local newspaper writers responded to similar tactics from credit card companies by imposing HIS own set of rules on THEIR transactions to his account.You might try sending a similarly worded notice accepting their...

Tags: Modems, Comcast Corp., cable, modem, agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative

While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Internet TV, Comcast Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January release

Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January releasebest yet?I've been keeping my eye on the Vizio VP505XVT which has gotten such great reviews and it's almost time to upgrade from my SV420XVT, but now that I see this is releasing I think I'm gonna hold out for another...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio, Costco

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ80Q

The Panasonic PZ80Q plasmas are the first TVs to include built-in support for Tru2way, which is designed to enable full access to digital cable TV services without the need for a separate cable box. Aside from the Tru2way support, the PZ80Q models are effectively identical to the PZ80U models--meaning that...

Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Panasonic PZ80Q plasma, Panasonic PZ80Q, PZ85U, Panasonic

Product reviews 2008-10-20

Panasonic Viera TH-42PZ80Q

The Panasonic PZ80Q plasmas are the first TVs to include built-in support for Tru2way, which is designed to enable full access to digital cable TV services without the need for a separate cable box. Aside from the Tru2way support, the PZ80Q models are effectively identical to the PZ80U models--meaning that...

Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Panasonic PZ80Q plasma, Panasonic PZ80Q, PZ85U, Panasonic

Product reviews 2008-10-20

News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Outsourcing, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Comcast introduces open-cable platform

Comcast introduces open-cable platformI don't mind buying more stuffas long as it works exactly the way I want. But anything less and my money stays with me.It is new stuffJust not High Def stuff.Here's what I see the issues is. My cable company want to lock me in with their...

Tags: DVR, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, personal video recorder, Comcast Corp., TV, cable, tuner

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

My road map for CES 2008

My road map for CES 2008DRM plus...I'm curious about all the new portable gadgets they're making for subscription music content, and whether that's an area that's going to keep growing and changing faster than you can buy the "toys" that make it all work. IPods are huge, I know,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, iPODS

Discussion threads 2008-01-07