CES: Comcast announces deals with Panasonic, Samsung on HDTV DVR's
By Richard Lawler 
posted Jan 5th 2006 2:35PM
posted Jan 5th 2006 2:35PM
As Engadget reported during the
press conference, Panasonic and Comcast announced a partnership to distribute Panasonic set top boxes. No real
information on how these will differ functionally from the Motorola & Scientific Atlanta boxes already in use in many Comcast areas,
but the focus of the partnership appears to be using one remote to control a variety of devices, we'll see how that
works out.Also, Comcast has announced a deal with Samsung to distribute their set top boxes, these will apparently feature the ability to connect digital music players and digital camera to the boxes. It will be interesting to see how all this works, plus we should be seeing the first Comcast boxes with Tivo software on them in 2006.
So this means I'm going to have to get one of each box for a month to see which one I like the best....
I'm using a motorola box from Comcast and at times it stalls or has errors erasing programs from the DVR. I have had great luck with Samsung products so hopefully they will exchange boxes in my area.