It was my understanding UnDunn that try2way is what you described as the "open way". Go to BestBuy, buy a tru2way TV, or a tru2way DVR of my choice and plug it into the wall and away I go. Giving me choice of hardware (built into TV, receiver, PC, Bluray player, DVR...) and surface software (Sony vs. Samsung vs. Microsoft interfaces...) with the same underpinning middleware. Instead it seems tru2way is simply a new OS for digital cable, which can be applied to any number of hardware compliant boxes, but they all run the exact same software (which is crap with Comcast anyway).
So it seems I am on Verizon's side, when I was mistakenly on tru2way's side.
Exactly. And the Cable companies are yelling "tru2way is an OPEN STANDARD!!!!" as often and as loudly as they can, so that no-one will notice until they've bought into this thing, and by then it will be too late to change it.
From a hardware manufactures point of view, it is. They can build one box that will work on both Motorola and Cisco based systems.
From a software development point of view, it is for the same reason. Write once, run on any system.
From a consumer point of view. Kind of. All you need to know is that your head-end is Tru2way compatible...you don't need to know if its a Cisco or Motorola head-end. From a software point of view, no probably not. Although, I do wonder, just how many manufactures actually want to code their own guide and other software or just use the standard MSO provided one. I know Tivo and Microsoft would obviously want to use their own guide (don't know about On-Demand and other apps) but I mean does Panasonic or Sony really want to be in the guide business?
I think you would be surprised how fast development of guides would happen if it were open. TV manufacturers would put nice big lavish guides that take advantage of the screen real estate on their 3000-4000 dollar TVs without any trouble, while having nice, well though out, compact guides on kitchen size 22 inch LCD TVs. No longer will we have to be subjected to SD sized guides on widescreen TVs. And I also imagine that companies will want to take advantage of this ability quite a bit by combining it with the newish HDMI-CEC which every major manufacturer is now touting on their respective systems as Bravia Link, Anynet and a number of other names.
I understand that the signal is different and I would not be opposed to a hardware that requires a mandatorily free cable card type dongle to be inserted or attached to a Firewire/Ethernet/USB that effectively is the decoder/liaison between the wall the device as long as it allows freedom of hardware and freedom of the software on the user end.
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It was my understanding UnDunn that try2way is what you described as the "open way". Go to BestBuy, buy a tru2way TV, or a tru2way DVR of my choice and plug it into the wall and away I go. Giving me choice of hardware (built into TV, receiver, PC, Bluray player, DVR...) and surface software (Sony vs. Samsung vs. Microsoft interfaces...) with the same underpinning middleware.
Instead it seems tru2way is simply a new OS for digital cable, which can be applied to any number of hardware compliant boxes, but they all run the exact same software (which is crap with Comcast anyway).
So it seems I am on Verizon's side, when I was mistakenly on tru2way's side.
Exactly. And the Cable companies are yelling "tru2way is an OPEN STANDARD!!!!" as often and as loudly as they can, so that no-one will notice until they've bought into this thing, and by then it will be too late to change it.
I think it is the definition of Open Standard.
From a hardware manufactures point of view, it is. They can build one box that will work on both Motorola and Cisco based systems.
From a software development point of view, it is for the same reason. Write once, run on any system.
From a consumer point of view. Kind of. All you need to know is that your head-end is Tru2way compatible...you don't need to know if its a Cisco or Motorola head-end. From a software point of view, no probably not. Although, I do wonder, just how many manufactures actually want to code their own guide and other software or just use the standard MSO provided one. I know Tivo and Microsoft would obviously want to use their own guide (don't know about On-Demand and other apps) but I mean does Panasonic or Sony really want to be in the guide business?
@Mallory
I think you would be surprised how fast development of guides would happen if it were open. TV manufacturers would put nice big lavish guides that take advantage of the screen real estate on their 3000-4000 dollar TVs without any trouble, while having nice, well though out, compact guides on kitchen size 22 inch LCD TVs. No longer will we have to be subjected to SD sized guides on widescreen TVs. And I also imagine that companies will want to take advantage of this ability quite a bit by combining it with the newish HDMI-CEC which every major manufacturer is now touting on their respective systems as Bravia Link, Anynet and a number of other names.
I understand that the signal is different and I would not be opposed to a hardware that requires a mandatorily free cable card type dongle to be inserted or attached to a Firewire/Ethernet/USB that effectively is the decoder/liaison between the wall the device as long as it allows freedom of hardware and freedom of the software on the user end.