Matt Doyle from Motorola ran through a great demo for me in the booth yesterday showing Caller ID on the TV. Unfortunately the noise in the video I shot is a bit overwhelming, so here’s the info in text form.
First, Motorola is showing both an OCAP/Tru2way Caller ID application and a non-OCAP [...]
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It’s been a very productive morning over at the Motorola booth. I’ve spoken to several product managers, shot some video and taken lots of stills. My time with an Internet connection is limited at the moment, however, so for this post I will let the video do the talking. Hit “play” for [...]
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Don’t get used to OpenCable. The name, that is. While I’m still stuck on calling the standard OCAP, Mike Robuck at CED reports that the name is likely to change again. With a possible launch at CES, CableLabs appears poised to introduce Tru2way as the new moniker for the Open Cable Application [...]
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It was something of a surprise this summer when Intel announced support for OpenCable (OCAP). But given that move, I guess it shouldn’t be a shock that Intel is joining the Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) Alliance. One takeaway: Big companies still see reason to invest in technologies for coaxial networks. Fiber is [...]
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Brian Santo over at CED has a great article up on the bandwidth implications of the DTV transition. Specifically he outlines why cable hasn’t gone all-digital already (cost of adding in CableCARDs and OCAP technology) and how cable could have had it worse in the recent DTV negotiations if the FCC had mandated triple [...]
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I made some irritating errors in writing about Motorola mobile software last week, so it’s clear that by trying to post again on the subject I’m just making myself a glutton for punishment. Nonetheless…
If you look across the Motorola mobile portfolio you’ll notice there’s a range of software in use. While pushing the [...]
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During a webcast earlier this week, CableLabs officially exchanged the term OCAP for OpenCable Platform. One less acronym on the books. Apparently OpenCable Platform indicates hardware and software where OCAP referred to software only.
A representative from CableLabs also mentioned that program guides are getting the most attention in these early days of OpenCable, [...]
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Continuing with the week’s OCAP and CableCARD coverage, there are two events worth mentioning. Monday the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) ran an OCAP dog-and-pony show for the FCC. Not much new appears to have been announced, but a Broadcasting and Cable article mentions some of the OCAP features shown including video [...]
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Somehow I missed the news yesterday that Intel has signed a licensing agreement with CableLabs to support the Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP). What does this mean? Well, it means that CE companies and CableLabs are slowly resolving the issue of how to make two-way cable services available on CE devices.The July 1st [...]
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Back at The Cable Show, one of the things Motorola announced was a new OCAP software developer kit (SDK). Doesn’t sound sexy, but it’s pretty revolutionary for the cable industry. Now that operators have committed to rolling out OCAP, the next step is to get developers on board to create new applications for [...]
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