Cable Show 2011: Cable is personalizing TV, moving away from "tyranny of set-top boxes"

By Alan Breznick

CHICAGO—Going where no major MSO has gone before, Comcast intends to introduce a personalized, Internet-connected TV guide and content navigation service for its digital cable subscribers as part of its push to offer video content on multiple display devices and duke it out with telco TV, satellite TV and over-the-top (OTT) video providers.Just as he demonstrated the first iPad application for cable last year, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts demonstrated the new cloud-based service, dubbed ‘Xcalibur,’ at a Cable Show keynote session here last week. Wielding a powerful new RF-based remote control, Roberts showed off the mix of channel guide,...