Steve Mehs
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join:2005-07-16
| reply to XPAMD
Re: Time warner SDV deployment
What's OCAP anyways?
I find it interesting that New York and Texas divisions always get upgraded first. Not just SDV, but in general.
- Rochester and San Antonio were two of the first three franchises to get Start Over
- Rochester was the first to get upgraded to 7Mb Road Runner
- San Antonio was one of the first to get upgraded to 10Mb Road Runner Turbo
- Rochester and Syracuse were the first ones to get upgraded to 10MB Road Runner and 15Mb Road Runner Turbo
- San Antonio and Austin were the only ones to have Starz HD and Cinemax HD for a while
- Rochester and Syracuse were amoung the first to do digital simulcast of the analog line up
- Rochester is one of the few areas to offer Voice Mail at no additional charge and Caller ID on TV has been avalable for at least 2 years now here.
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ignorant
join:2006-03-26
| Any new box being issued will be an OCAP box, odds are must systems if not all are only purchasing HD boxes and HD DVR boxes at this point, no point in buying new non HD digital boxes.
Steve Mehs- OCAP (now called Tru2Way I believe) is the OpenCable Platform. It's basically a set of middleware for the separate security (Cable Card) boxes. Any new box being issued to a customer after July 1 2007 needs to be an OCAP box, however refurbished boxes can still be issued. |
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Steve Mehs
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join:2005-07-16 | Thanks, I knew about that I just didn't know what it called called. I thought all franchises were now handing out C and HDC terminals. |
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Rombus
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join:2007-04-11
Columbus, OH | Just a point, the list is incorrect for SDV Deployment.
SDV is not yet launched in TWC NEO |
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luckykevin
join:2005-04-30
Arlington, TX
| dallas-fortworth metro will be getting sdv in 2008
first cities to see it:
arlington
dallas
mesquite
richardson
plano
these channels will be sdv:
vesus/golf hd
national geographic hd
cnn hd
tbs hd
a&e hd
history channel hd
discovery hd
animal planet hd
fsn southwest hd
hgtv hd
food network hd
as of 3/27/2008 |
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Kichigai
join:2008-02-21
Mesquite, TX | I am curious how SDV will affect my Tivo since I am in the Dallas area? |
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swintec
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| said by Kichigai  :I am curious how SDV will affect my Tivo since I am in the Dallas area? It wont be positive. Last i knew it made the TiVo a paperweight but TiVo was working on a solution, I cant remember if I saw they found one yet.
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MacLeech
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1 edit | said by swintec :said by Kichigai :I am curious how SDV will affect my Tivo since I am in the Dallas area? It wont be positive. Last i knew it made the TiVo a paperweight but TiVo was working on a solution, I cant remember if I saw they found one yet. Yes, there is a solution, it's called a "tuning resolver" and it's a modem sized unit that'll be issued by the cable company for these sorts of situations. The Tivo will need a software update and an open USB port.
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swintec
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Alfred, ME | Have you seen it in action at all yet? Does it work well?
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bulvai
join:2006-01-20
Dallas, TX
1 edit | reply to luckykevin
Kevin,
I've been waiting a while to get more HD out of my box, here in Plano. So, are you saying on March 27th we'll be able to receive all those channels on my HD tier?
Thanks,
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Dampier
Phillip M Dampier
join:2003-03-23
Rochester, NY
| reply to Steve Mehs
said by Steve Mehs :I find it interesting that New York and Texas divisions always get upgraded first. Not just SDV, but in general. - Rochester and San Antonio were two of the first three franchises to get Start Over - Rochester was the first to get upgraded to 7Mb Road Runner - San Antonio was one of the first to get upgraded to 10Mb Road Runner Turbo - Rochester and Syracuse were the first ones to get upgraded to 10MB Road Runner and 15Mb Road Runner Turbo - San Antonio and Austin were the only ones to have Starz HD and Cinemax HD for a while - Rochester and Syracuse were amoung the first to do digital simulcast of the analog line up - Rochester is one of the few areas to offer Voice Mail at no additional charge and Caller ID on TV has been avalable for at least 2 years now here. Rochester has historically always been considered a major TW test market for new products and services due to its high adoption rate of new technology, comfort with fast-paced changes in service offerings, a well educated high-tech oriented workforce, but a more "middle class" income base that gives key indications about price level tolerance and resistance. We were early adopters of Road Runner in general, beginning consumer beta tests in 1998. The DVR box was market tested in this area first as well.
However, we are not the only test market for Time Warner. Multi-room networked DVRs have not tested here, nor interactive cable system platforms (central Florida had that honor first).
Some of the product offerings and enhancements you mentioned come not because of a need to test those products, but rather to respond to market competition issues. Frontier Telephone gives Time Warner a real run for the money in offering value to telephone customers. Phone rates in this market are much lower than in other NY cities, requiring more value on TW's part in their telephone bundle (which still does not do as well here as in many other cities where phone rates are higher).
FIOS will drive broadband speeds upwards as TW adopts the position that stable markets with no competitive pressure don't require significant speed upgrades.
Channel lineups are developed both locally and nationally. Starz! is a premium product that was created by the old TCI, Inc., (AT&T Cable -> Comcast) that has never been heavily promoted or rolled out by Time Warner cable systems, which prefer to push HBO & Cinemax. Rochester barely mentions Starz! and does not offer its on demand counterpart to local subscribers.
Corporate TW signs affiliation agreements with networks guaranteeing x million households will have access, and then assigns priority to the addition of those networks to the various divisions' lineups. That's the primary driving factor for the addition of new networks. But local management can also play a significant role on which networks stay and which go from a market's cable dial based on subscriber demand. |
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