Another day, another set-top box.
This one comes courtesy of Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, who told those at the Stanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York that the company planned to market equipment to its subscribers to make it easier for them to watch Internet video on their televisions.
Naturally, Britt offered few details, other than to say:
“Right now it’s pretty hard to get Internet stuff on your TV,” Britt said [via Reuters]. “We’re actually going to have equipment we make available to subscribers. It’s actually going to be a new wireless cable modem that will allow you to network everything in your house.”
Naturally, Britt didn’t elaborate or say when the set-top box would be available to subscribers.
“Within a relatively short time . . . it’s going to be very easy to get Internet TV on your big screen TV.”
OK. So Time Warner is throwing its hat into the ring with the likes of Apple and the AppleTV, TiVo, Netflix/Roku, Vudu, Microsoft, Sony, the cable companies, and seemingly hundreds more. As long as we’re watching the vendor sports between these players, we might as well throw Time Warner’s set-top box scheme into the mix.
Catching Up
After the break, a few stories of interest from the just-concluding week.
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