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Re: Thoughts on this Updated Cloud DVR Time Warner Cable is Deploying?

There's conflicting information out there about the new guide,

Select Regions of California, Dallas, New York, and the Carolina's have it on the new Cisco, Samsung, and Motorolla boxes.

I asked about the Cloud Guide at TWC Forums and they said, it is still being developed. Seemingly inferring that the updated guide being deployed on the above boxes and regions is not the cloud guide they are talking about. But is a model representing what the cloud guide will become.

The cloud service is going to be an on-going development transition, moving features out of the boxes to the servers to free up memory on the legacy boxes.

It is unknown what TWC will do with the SA-C boxes in this transition process. Charter Cable is testing a cloud-based guide that will run on all box platforums from legacy to modern.

I have been told the SA boxes don't have the processor power to do a 16x9 guide. But could they do an HD Guide if the guide was "in the cloud" and not on the boxes?

The new search and VOD ports for the new guide are activated by the MSO at the head end. I assume that this data, coming from the servers is cloud-based. Aren't applets like VOD already cloud-based.

Nothing on the six-tuner boxes. It would be great to see them this year, even if they only start out as available for Whole Home DVR subs. I am sure that those boxes will have the cloud-based guide built-in on activation.

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motorola870
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yes this is the cloud guide they have been talking about the guide isn't going to be totally off of the boxes instead they are moving features off of the boxes. Right now Dallas has the second version of the could features with the original Advanced Search and when navigator loads it says something about Advanced search HTML and VOD Portal HTML.

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The reason Charter's "in the cloud" guide can run on any box, from a 10 year old Scientific Atlanta receiver to the newest Pace or Samsung, is that everything is rendered on the server at Charter's datacenter and then the UI is streamed down to your box simply as a video channel. All the receiver has to be able to do is take your remote inputs and transmit them out to the server over the plant and then display a video channel determined by the server.

No idea if this is how TWC's "cloud" UI is working, the cloud part may simply be because settings and searches and whatnot are performed server side, the UI may still be generated on the client itself.

motorola870
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the only question about that cloud implementation that charter wants to use is how much bandwidth are you going to lose just to dedicate Video carriers to display the guide which is nothing new and has been done before heck TWC had that implementation for their VOD portal on the failed microsoft guide test they did in the early 2000s Wichita Falls TX had that guide and finally was converted to iGuide but they had a menu where silicondust tuners were picking it up and it was a basic menu but you could see the categories for VOD selections. TWC is just using the cloud based features for enhanced VOD, and search right now.