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Re: [X1] The New X2 - The "Evolution" of the X1 said by SpHeRe31459:said by GTFan:said by telcodad:According to this article on the FierceCable site, the X2 will be unveiled at this year's Cable Show in June:
Roberts: Comcast will unveil new version of Xfinity X1 platform at The Cable Show
By Dan O'Shea, FierceCable - March 21, 2013
»www.fiercecable.com/story/robert···13-03-21
LOL, they can't even deliver a non-buggy X1, can't wait to see how the X2 looks when it gets rolled out 5 years from now. Doesn't anyone read the actual article or the comments here? X2 is just a codename for a new revision to the X1. X1 has been undergoing lots of revisions since it has come out. "X2" is just a further evolution of the existing guide. It integrates a recommendations engine, otherwise it's the same guide. Comcast isn't even planning on differentiating it, it will just be a new feature that gets added to existing the X1 platform at some point.... Does it really matter? The point doesn't change, Comcast rollouts take an eternity and every DVR is a bugfest. They like to announce all sorts of what look to be decent features then fail to deliver a good product in a timely manner. It's an LOL that they're even talking about an X2 when the X1 is still only available to a very small part of their footprint, and it's buggy as hell.
Satellite has already lapped the field here, cable is slowly playing catchup but usually it's just a bunch of promises. |
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| But don't we already know to take anything from Comcast with a big grain of salt at this point?
The X2 build is just being shown to an industry trade show. It's not being shown to end-users and they already admitted there's no timeline for deployment of the feature. It's basically just an extra that they're developing along side the existing base X1 features. If you read the big X1 thread here there's almost weekly updates being pushed out to end users. So it's not like this has somehow derailed or stopped development of the main base X1. |
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| True, I've already seen things about X3 .... |
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| Dude, you keep brining up X3. There is no X3 software, it's never been said anywhere.
You're confusing it with the "Xi3" reference design which is for the IP only client boxes. The Xi3 RDK was incorrectly reported as "X3" in a couple of news articles back in mid-2012. But it's never been used in reference to the guide software, it's was hardware only. |
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| ah ok, good. |
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