Cable customers can get SlingLoaded too with the T2200S tru2way DVR

Want a taste of the SlingLoaded DISH Network 922 DVR (pictured), without switching to satellite? Echostar, as expected, is ready to show off a tru2way compatible version of its latest box, the T2200S, this week at the Cable Show '09. The T2200S contains the 1TB hard drive, expandable storage and of course, Sling Media's placeshifting technology ready to send live or recorded TV to your Internet connected device of choice. Since it's tru2way, it's also capable of running either the SlingGuide software, or whatever middleware is chosen by the provider, and enabling remote video diagnostics, hopefully making many truck rolls unnecessary. Like the 922, we've no price or release date yet but hopefully all that work on tru2way and M-CARD means whether or not our cable company signs up, we'll still have the choice of purchasing one at retail.

Update: Looks like the box is planned to start testing June, and go into production in Q4 of 2009, the specs from the PR are after the break. [Thanks, Justin]
The SlingLoaded T2200S also provides the following features:

-- Supports MPEG-2, H.264 (MPEG-4) and VC1.
-- 1GHz tuners to support expanded network bandwidth.
-- Connect to the home network via Ethernet, WiFi (with optional WiFi adapter) or Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA(TM)).
-- Picture-in-Picture
-- Supports advanced resolution formats up to 1080p24.
-- Individual branding opportunities for MSOs.
-- Supports Macrovision and DCS analog copy protection.
-- Features an attractive, capacitive-touch, backlit front panel with clock display.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 30th 2009 3:27PM]

Looks awesome - but production is scheduled to begin in Q4 2009... so maybe we'll see these in 2010.

http://production.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=700318&afterinter=true

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 30th 2009 4:01PM]

That's fine. It'll probably take that long to see more substantial tru2way rollouts anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 30th 2009 4:40PM]

...Assuming the TiVo patent suit doesn't kill it.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 30th 2009 9:04PM]

I want this now!

[Fanfoot Posted Mar 30th 2009 11:32PM]

tru2way will help avoid truck rolls? Are you smoking crack? A complex execution environment that is just barely getting rolled out will make all the boring stuff we're using now easier to debug remotely? So when my cablecard isn't working, that tru2way stuff will be? Not on my planet...