Tru2way showcase ready for next month's Cable Show

Plenty of tru2way demos planned for The Cable Show in April [EngadgetHD]

The Cable Show is coming up at the beginning of next month in Washington D.C., and it promises to be a showcase for tru2way, the up-and-coming standard for interactive televisions. EngadgetHD has linked to a release that details a number of tru2way set-tops and tru2way program guides, games, web browsers and more tru2way programs to be on display at The Cable Show's CableNET. CableNET is a joint technology showcase of the NCTA and CableLabs.

I'll be taking a look at the new tru2way products at The Cable Show next month. Last year's Cable Show was the debut of tru2way devices, and this time it looks like we'll have some new products based on the standard. In between my duties as this year's convention chairman, I'll be blogging from The Cable Show again this year.   I'm looking forward to profiling some new products and applications, so stay tuned.  The show runs from April 1 through April 3.

Comments

[Derek Licciardi]

If these things can't be used in a DIY Media Center PC, they will continue to be used like CableCARDs are today and be completely underwhelming. There's a sizable amount of people that want to build their own DVR machines out of Windows Vista MCE but they're not willing to pay upwards of $5000 for an OEM solution. CableLABs is not doing you guys any favors by sticking to the OEM requirement for using these things.

I know it hurts your bottom line to install these devices instead of the $15.95 a month DVR boxes but tru2way could be the wave of the future for you if CableLABs and Hollywood will get out of the way and let the customers use them the way they want to.

[rv65]

It would be nice to have Tru2way PC's. I hear the Larrabee chipset will support tru2way. Don't expect these PC's to come out until 2010 to 2011. They might end up making the tuners available for regular PC's but they might make you upgrade your components that support the DRM. Thats not Insight's decision. That decision belongs to CableLabs. They are the ones that write the Cable TV standards that we use in America today.