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Sony Signs on With tru2way: Kiss Your Cable Box Goodbye

Joining Panny, Sammy and LG, Sony has signed on with the cable industry to support tru2way (aka OpenCable). Basically, sets with tru2way can do everything you'd usually need a set-top box from your cable company for, like VOD, programming guides and other interactive stuff, without the box (sounds like a future Giz Explains!). With Sony now, all of the major TV players are now on board, along with all the big cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, etc., so it looks tru2way really might be a national cable standard, and not just a marketing thing with a cheesy brand name out of the mid-90s. Hopefully the cable boxes are now well on their way to extinction. More »

5:15 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By matt buchanan
5,121 views, 18 comments

Latest by n/a: tivo will make a tuning adapter external usb device to handle tru2way. they already showed a demo. [www.engadgethd.com] regular cablecards are SOL as of now and will become obsolete if nothing is done and your cable company switches to SDV. [www.engadgethd.com] more »

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Panasonic Kills Rear Projection, Promises 2-Way CableCard By Summer

Today in New York, Panasonic showed off the Viera flat-panel TVs it launched at CES, including its badass flagship PZ800 and PZ850 plasma sets and its premiere LZ800 LCD, all coming this summer at prices to be announced. During the meeting, Panasonic also confirmed officially that it was no longer in the rear-projection business, owing to a price crunch in flat panels that basically drove any discount value out of the chunkier projection sets. Bottom line: people would rather pay $3K for a smaller and thinner set than a larger but fatter one. Panasonic also addressed the issue of OpenCable (aka OCAP aka Tru2way) two-way CableCards. More »

11:47 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Wilson Rothman
5,018 views, 8 comments

Latest by TimurY: Awsome photoshopping! Or should I say 'painting'? more »