"...the group announced that "interactive digital cable services are now live" in TWC's New York City systems."
Well, very technically speaking, interactive service has been live for years and years. They've been doing PPV for quite a while, one COULD say that's an interactive service.
Now, interactive via an OCAP enabled software system, 100% false. It IS anticipated that this year will see some form of rollout of their OCAP enabled software (commonly referred to by a code name, "Mystro" Digital Navigator). If TWC does follow it's previous pattern, it will be rolled out in certain specific areas for several months before a wide deployment is initiated (in the past, those test areas appear to be low density areas). Still that OCAP software is running on some TWC systems and it seems a lot of those folks wish they had the previous software back (that being Passport).
The issue of some brand new STB is another story. It doesn't say it's a DVR; TWC ain't saying, but judging by the huge quantities of DVR boxes sitting at their office ready to be given to customers sure leads one to think DVR penetration is very significant (maybe more than 50%?).
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"...the group announced that "interactive digital cable services are now live" in TWC's New York City systems."
Well, very technically speaking, interactive service has been live for years and years. They've been doing PPV for quite a while, one COULD say that's an interactive service.
Now, interactive via an OCAP enabled software system, 100% false. It IS anticipated that this year will see some form of rollout of their OCAP enabled software (commonly referred to by a code name, "Mystro" Digital Navigator). If TWC does follow it's previous pattern, it will be rolled out in certain specific areas for several months before a wide deployment is initiated (in the past, those test areas appear to be low density areas). Still that OCAP software is running on some TWC systems and it seems a lot of those folks wish they had the previous software back (that being Passport).
The issue of some brand new STB is another story. It doesn't say it's a DVR; TWC ain't saying, but judging by the huge quantities of DVR boxes sitting at their office ready to be given to customers sure leads one to think DVR penetration is very significant (maybe more than 50%?).