Tru2Way Open Cable Applications? Yes, really… January 21, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Check out this article from the Consumer Electronics Show posted by ComCast about their Tru2Way technology. If you’re like me, you’ll have to read it twice to believe it.
Cable companies have been notorious about “protecting their investment” by locking consumers out of just about everything on those cute little set-top boxes most people have at home. Yes, your cable box is actually capable of much, much more then it currently does today. A quick peak around the average set-top cable box will reveal USB, serial and other computer-related ports, but most come disabled by default from the cable company. This has always struck me as a bit funny, as the boxes themselves could be a real selling point for the cable companies.
This latest announcement from Comcast seems to imply that they’ve finally figured out the value of both the boxes themselves and the fact that one exists in most of the homes they service. They also seem to want to leverage the open-source community (wahoo). Let’s see if this is just a bunch of hype or if this actually lives up to it’s promise.
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