TWC: Soon New Channels/DVR Managing For iPad's/Network Improvements For STB's!

[Jack 1000]

From TWC CEO Glen Britt:

On iPad Updates:

"This is really exciting time in our business. New technology is making it possible for us to provide a better video experience to our customers, one that gives them more control. Nowhere is this more evident than in our iPad app, which we launched last month to overwhelmingly positive consumer reviews. In its first month, 360,000 iPad users downloaded the app. We started with 30 linear channels simulcast over our cable network and we now have more than 70 channels. By year end, we plan to offer nearly all of the linear cable channels, as well as broadcast channels in several of our biggest cities and a lot of on-demand content.

I want to emphasize that our iPad app is not a one-off product. Rather, we are investing in a development process and a development team that will introduce new capabilities to our customers in rapid succession.

In the next month or so, we're planning to release an update that will add remote control capability and the ability to remotely program DVRs. The consumer electronics industry is embracing the idea of devices such as smart TVs, with built-in intelligence and two-way communications capability, all built in IP standards. The technology that we're using to simulcast videos to iPads will eventually feed all of these devices and over time, this may lead to a world without set tops, which we think could enable a much better customer experience. "

On The Networking of Data to Set Top Boxes/DVR's (The Virtual Cloud for STB data and networking.)

"However, without ignoring our traditional video environment built MPEG MPEG and analog standards. Later this year, we're planning to launch a new navigation application, which will be hosted in our network instead of in our set-tops, providing a much more intuitive and graphically-rich search environment for millions of customers using our set-top boxes."


The whole article is here:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/266273-time-warner-cable-s-ceo-discusses-q1-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript

Jack

[gparris]

Mailings have gone out to all subscribers this past week or weeks with a pamphlet of the new lineups, though in my area, nothing really changed at all and the new channels in the their mailing were not even listed in the pamphlet.:huh?:
The "Coming this summer-more HD channels!" showed only what their website has shown all along in the notices section: Cooking HD, DIYHD being added and the Lifetime HD, C&I HD along with the trutvHD coming.
-Last time trutvHD was in place, if only for as short time, all the HD channels were a big mess  because their system couldn't handle all the action channels with the basketball. What will make it different this time?
Looking closer at the handout listings for the channel lineup, I do see the former analogue channels of 71-75 and 78 and 80 available only with a digital box box or tuning adapter/cablecard...so maybe that is their solution.:confused:

[MrZMaster]

Great.. now when can TWC customers get HBO GO? :bang: