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Pioneer Ports Passport Software Suite to Motorola DCT-1000, -2000 Series
Digital
Set-Top Cable Boxes
NEW ORLEANS, NCTA 2000, Booth #4371, May 8, 2000 /PRNewswire via
COMTEX/ --
Pioneer New Media Technologies (PNT)/Pioneer Digital Technologies (PDT),
a
leader in cable TV set-top terminals and navigational software, has
ported its
acclaimed Passport(TM) software application suite to the Motorola
DCT-1000 and
-2000 series of digital set-top cable television terminals. Passport DCT
maximizes the capabilities of Motorola set-top boxes and maintains the
performance, interactivity and intuitive user interface that Passport is
known
for. The Motorola DCT-1000 and -2000 series boxes with Passport DCT are
scheduled for summer release.
More than 400,000 digital cable television subscribers are using Passport
for
the Pegasus platform, and soon the thousands of viewers using Motorola
hardware
will be able to enjoy the same benefits. The ability to purchase movies
and
pay-per-view events in advance, scroll through favorite channels with the
push
of a button, and preview one channel while watching another are just a
few of
the features provided with the Passport software. Pioneer has also
announced
that it is in the final stages of porting Passport to the new DCT-5000
series.
"The completion of this port of the Passport software to the DCT platform
brings
us closer to our goal of offering the best digital navigation suite in
the
market place on every deployed digital cable box in the field," said Haig
Krakirian, vice president of software engineering at PDT. Passport
currently is
compatible with all Pegasus compliant digital terminals, including
Scientific
Atlanta's Explorer 2000 series and Pioneer's Voyager series. |
