Scientific Atlanta, TiVo launch new product

[mtchamp]

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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2007/09/10/story5.html?ana=from_rss,

Scientific Atlanta, TiVo launch new product
Atlanta Business Chronicle - September 7, 2007
by Justin Rubner
Staff writer

Once direct competitors, Scientific Atlanta Inc. and TiVo Inc. are about to become friends.

Scientific Atlanta, the maker of the nondescript cable boxes and digital video recorders attached to TVs in millions of homes, has for several years competed with the smaller, Alviso, Calif.-based company, whose name has become synonymous with the DVR.

[BlackBetty]

strange this article is from Sep 7th, but yet no word on it until now. I am guessing it might be a confusion to the comcast spending development money to port to SA hardware.

[jblake]

Any way to post some of the details for those of us without bizjournals accounts? Don't post the whole article, maybe just summarize? Does it really include Directv?

[jblake]

So I've done some digging around and apparently all this means is Comcast is going to directly fund Tivo's development costs for porting the software to SciAtl boxes. Nowhere is there any mention of a partnership directly between Tivo and SciAtl, and it seems that it's only Comcast right now.

Makes sense because SciAtl has nothing to do with DirecTV.

[PaulS]

From the article :

But now, Scientific Atlanta, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., is teaming up with TiVo to design a DVR that will marry the Lawrenceville company's hardware with TiVo's user-friendly software. The partnership is possible thanks to one of Scientific Atlanta's biggest customers, cable TV and communications provider Comcast Corp. The cable giant is funding a "substantial" amount of the development of the new product, TiVo said Aug. 29 in its quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

This is just SA telling us what we already knew. Comcast is gonna foot the bill for TiVo to port their OCAP-ish stuff to the SA boxes. No more, no less.

[Curtis]

From the article :



This is just SA telling us what we already knew. Comcast is gonna foot the bill for TiVo to port their OCAP-ish stuff to the SA boxes. No more, no less.
SA didn't write the article. SA doesn't say anything.

I'm questioning whether SA is even involved in what TiVo is doing.

[jblake]

there is no mention of Tivo on SA's site. I highly doubt there is a special partnership outside of a standard OCAP developer relationship. Probably the same relationship Pioneer has with SA regarding the Pioneer software that runs on the SA boxes.