Panasonic will have tru2way TVs on the market before the holiday ...
Panasonic will have tru2way TVs on the market before the holiday selling season, said Senior Vice President Robert Perry. Speaking Wednesday to reporters at CEDIA in Denver, he said the OCAP-compliant TVs will deliver all cable services without a…
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set-top box. On-demand video, pay-per- view and the ability to order services will be among the offerings. Perry described tru2way as providing the “Holy Grail in the television business: TVs that connect directly to the cable system and make all content from cable system available on TV without a box.” Panasonic has worked with CableLabs on the technology. With tru2way, the cable industry is opening its digital video interface for innovation and development, said Dick Green, president of CableLabs. “It’s truly an open standard, is Java-based and uses the same API sets as Blu-ray,” he said. “All the cable operators in the U.S. have adopted this as their technology, which means all the cable systems throughout the country work on a common interface, and all the MSOs are upgrading their systems to support this.”