Yesterday I was reading about Tru2way™ technology, the new name for the “OpenCable Applications Platform” (OCAP) that’s being built into televisions, set-top boxes and other electronic devices to enjoy television anywhere, anytime you want.
With tru2way technology, cable companies, content developers, network programmers and consumer electronics companies can quickly deliver the interactive services consumers “want”, and it will work on almost every cable system in the United States as well as in other countries.
This tru2way technology will prove once and for all that any medium (newspapers, magazines and radio before it, TV and just like the internet after it) performs (multi) media services. (the question is how we use or abuse it!)
Anyway: Electronics industry – including Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Intel, TiVo, Motorola, Cisco and Microsoft, are working with COMCAST -cable industry leader – to make the tru2way solution a reality – introducing the industry’s first portable DVR player powered by tru2way technology that will let the consumers watch their recorded programs anytime and anywhere – in the home, at the seaside or on a road trip with their families or friends. Simpler operation with a single remote control. And shared views of course…
“The tru2way platform is here today, and provides the best way to get two-way devices into the hands of consumers, while also giving them access to the full suite of services they want and expect from cable”, said Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation and Chairman of CableLabs.
Panasonic Viera HDTV with tru2way technology provides infact multiple benefits including the access the full range of interactive digital cable video services, video on demand and interactive program guides without a set-top-box.
The Comcast AnyPlay™ Portable DVR (P-DVR) is expected to be available in early 2009 and will let playback DVDs and audio CDs.
