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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I'm very interested in this myself.
I would think Telus would definitely have the advantage with the any recorded program on any tv anytime, that you see advertised with Comcast, etc. Someone at work was just asking me about this, this morning.
I would think if it is any good, Shaw would have to match the technology shortly.
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AT&T U-verse uses MS mediaroom like Telus. Comcast and Shaw both use i-guide and guideworks.
The problem is, i-guide is the only middleware solution for the hardware Shaw has in place and the company that makes i-guide, Rovi is essentially a monopoly that has bought up all of its competitors and are more interested in licensing a whole bunch of things rather than actually developing products to compete other providers products and services.
Guideworks is the guide software that sits on top of I-guide is owned now by Comcast and re-sold by Rovi so we are all at the mercy of them to decided which features they feel it is important.
For example, Comcast has decided that they don't want the ability to turn off channels not subscribed to like their competitors do so, we'll never see it.
Apparently, Shaw is testing a new version of I-guide and Guideworks that is supposed to bring in a lot of the features that you see in Microsoft Mediaroom but how long that will be, who knows? It took them a year to roll out version A28.