Digital Media Bytes
Filed by Dave Zatz under Advertising, HDTV, Industry, Media, Satellite TV, TiVo
Nov
10
2006
A periodic roundup of relevant news…
- Buy a TiVo, get a pizza: TiVo
- CEA proposes FCC expedite two-way products: Multichannel News
- ITVN announces Universal movie on-demand: Press Release
- HD DVR sales drive DirecTV growth: PVRWire
- Moviebeam expands retail presence into Radio Shack: TWICE
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3 Responses for "Digital Media Bytes"
If only I could order my Pizza through my TiVo . . .
The only genuinely interesting use of cablecards so far has been the DVR. How about a CC Slingbox? Nothing really innovative has passed CableLabs yet.
Now that MSFT needs this (full DCR functionality) we’ll see how much that additional muscle moves things along.
[...] An article in Multichannel News (Zatz) describes a new proposal filed with the FCC by the CEA (Nov 7) to further advance toward full DCR functionality and parity with low end STBs. The NCTA’s response the next day appears to be “hey, we already gave you OCAP…” [...]
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