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Originally Posted by nn012
This bit has been added today to the interview:
So that's confirmation from the horse's mouth that ntl: will indeed be introducing the TW TVDrive box and not the original MPEG-4 Explorer 8450 PVR announced before the merger.
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Err, no it's not.
The ntl/telewest person said they will be launching the TV Drive next year. He made no mention of specs. You can, as all of you have done over the last few days/weeks assume that the MPEG4 boxes are dead, or you can wait and see what happens. Although, it will be a wait....
A couple of things:
TV Drive is a brand, not a spec. When the ntl person said ntl are launching the TV Drive to ntl areas next year. That does NOT mean it will necessarily mean the Telewest TV Drive...
The ntl person also said "There is a huge amount of work to be done to make sure that this box and the code that resides on it can interface with all the NTL back-end systems." This could just as easily apply to a new MPEG 4 box with the possibility of new middle ware, just as much as could to the current mpeg 2 Telewest box.
Finally, and as said before here, Scientific-Atlanta announced last September that ntl had "selected" their MPEG 4 box. But, SA made no mention of numbers ordered or whether there was a contract signed. If there was a contract signed, then it's MPEG 4 boxes for ntl...Interestly, ntl made no mention of this on their web site.. If a contract was signed then, some boxes should be ready by now.
I still live in hope that ntl might, might, be able to provide a decently specked PVR for customers and HD some time this century.