Gizmo Lovers At The Cable Show 2012

Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by MegaZone

The Cable Show 2012 I may not have been able to make it to CES this year, but I’m tentatively planning to cover The Cable Show in May. (Tentative currently since I’ll need to work out the time off with my day job, but I don’t think that’ll be a problem since my boss is excellent. I’ll worry about that once I’m back from my honeymoon in a month or so.) I already have my Media Registration confirmed.

The Cable Show 2012 is being held in Boston, May 21-23. Since that’s basically local to me, I don’t have much of an excuse for not going this year. The Cable Show is the conference held by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association to showcase all of the latest and greatest technology and products in the cable industry.

The current list of exhibitors includes all of the expected hardware players, including TiVo. Given the focus of the show I expect they’ll be pitching their MSO solutions, and I’m very interested in what they have planned for that market to build upon their success to date. Of course it’ll also be very interesting to see what The Usual Suspects (Cisco, Motorola, Pace, Samsung, et al.) have up their sleeves. Especially if Google gets approval for their acquisition of Motorola before the show and we hear what their plans might be.

I’m looking forward to it as I haven’t attended an industry show since CES 2009, and this will be my first time attending The Cable Show. I know Gabe from Tech of the Hub, another Boston-area blogger, is also planning to attend. Maybe we can have a little Gathering of Bloggers.

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  • http://www.techofthehub.com The Hub

    Podcast!!

  • http://www.techofthehub.com The Hub

    Podcast!!

    • http://www.gizmolovers.com/ MegaZone

      I’m game, though the only video camera I own is my Galaxy Nexus. :-)

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  • Fanfoot

    Bring a little cynicism with you.  Seems to me a lot of the technology that is demoed at the Cable Show never sees the light of day.

    Still as you say, there is some stuff I’d really like to hear about.  Anything from Google about their plans with respect to DVRs in general, and Motorola STBs in particular.  Anything about Ceton’s new solution.  Anything new from Tivo.  Transcoding/placeshifting/streaming solutions of any kind.

    Perhaps the spectre of an “Apple TV” (that’ll never materialize) will push these guys forward

    • http://www.gizmolovers.com/ MegaZone

      I wouldn’t bet on an Apple TV, but I wouldn’t bet against it either.  It is the kind of thing Apple might do – but I can’t see it being more than a tiny niche player.  TVs are something people generally buy on size and price, and even if they add lots of features to it there are plenty of connected/smart TV options – not the least of which are the Google TV sets coming to market.

      • Fanfoot

        You know, what would make my life easier is if these damn companies would make HDMI-CEC work.  Even if ALL they did was to switch inputs when I start playing a video on my Apple TV via AirPlay from my iPhone, that alone would be a huge deal, and start to diminish the ‘first input’ advantage the cable STB has over every other media device…

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