Cable News. Why Divi/Cube never get mentioned in these type of articles is beyond me. The Rodney Dangerfield syndrome I guess.
eet.com
some excerpts:
Indeed, at a time when the cable industry hopes to expand broadband services not only for digital video, but also for high-speed data and IP telephony, the need for technology solutions is diversifying. As a result, the traditional cable industry culture ? with a few select companies such as General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta supplying key technology for development of proprietary solutions ? is being radically altered. The mantra in cable today is "open systems," allowing more choices both for service operators and consumers.
Philips announced its first foray into the U.S. cable market, a deal to supply an undisclosed number of set-tops [C-Cube inside] to cable operator MediaOne's Jacksonville, Fla., network. "The U.S. cable industry is finally moving to open standards," said Willem de Zoete, president of Philips Home Access Solutions. "We felt [the chance to enter the market] is now or never."
The Philips group also oversees partnerships already in place with many U.S. companies in the set-top business, including AOL TV, DirecTV, EchoStar, TiVo and Microsoft's Web TV.
Philips also has two set-tops. The box MediaOne [C-Cube inside] is buying runs the MediaHighway software platform from Canal+, running on STMicroelectronics' ST20 controller, with 8 Mbytes of SDRAM and 6 Mbytes of flash. Philips' advanced set-top [no Cube inside?, Stream Machine maybe?] - which will be offered to European cable operator UPC, and is due for launch in mid-2000 - runs MicrosoftTV on a MIPS CPU, and packs a TriMedia 1300 processor to handle media decoding. The box integrates a two-way cable modem. |
