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Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout
i read/heard somewhere that shaw isnt about to update anything for a while due to some technical limitations that are imposed on them by comcast or some other american cable co who leases them tech
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From me earlier in this thread:
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.