Category Archives: OCAP

Comcast accepts TiVo’s software

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 by MegaZone

In an SEC filing today, TiVo revealed that Comcast has officially accepted the TiVo-branded software for their cable DVRs, just three days before the June 30th deadline. On June 27, 2007, Comcast accepted the TiVo-branded, TiVo service-enabling software solution for … Continue reading →

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Intel does a 180 on OpenCable – and more OCAP news

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 by MegaZone

As recently as November, 2006 Intel was opposed to the licensing terms for OCAP (the OpenCable Application Platform) and they opposed requiring consumer electronics (CE) vendors to support OCAP in general for two-way cable services. Well, things change, and apparently … Continue reading →

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OCAP SDK coming – and looking forward to CES 2008

Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 by MegaZone

Connected Home 2 Go reported on a forthcoming OCAP SDK from Motorola. (CH2G is a Motorola blog.) For the non-geeks, OCAP is the OpenCable Applications Platform, a new Java-based platform that the cable industry is migrating toward. TiVo’s software for … Continue reading →

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Time Warner going Switched Digital on 50% of systems

Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 by MegaZone

Potentially bad news for TiVo Series3 users, or anyone using a CableCARD receiver with Time Warner digital cable. Multichannel News is reporting that Time Warner plans to deploy Switched Digital Video (SDV) on 50% of its systems by the end … Continue reading →

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TiVo and DirecTV may reconcile – and other news

Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 by MegaZone

As my readers are probably aware, TiVo used to be the DVR provider for DirecTV. However, after News Corp purchased DirecTV, they announced in late 2005 that they would cease marketing TiVo-based DVRs. Instead, DirecTV switched to using technology from … Continue reading →

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