LOUISVILLE, CO – U.S. cable giants including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications were among the participants at a recent interoperability event hosted by CableLabs which demonstrated how premium content could be shared securely over the home network.
CableLabs said representatives from seven of its cable operator companies and 10 industry vendors attended the tru2way home networking interop event from March 28 – April 1st at its headquarters in Louisville.
Participants used DTCP/IP among multiple tru2way set-top boxes and DLNA devices, such as connected TVs, game consoles, and PCs. They also demonstrated use of a DLNA application on a mobile phone to control devices on the home network, to select content from a home network device, and to control playing that content on another device, such as a television set. The phone also controlled features such as pause, rewind and fast forward.
Tru2way is the consumer-facing name of CableLabs’ OpenCable Application Platform. The software is developed by CableLabs with support from the OpenSource community on java.net and integrated into tru2way devices. The reference implementation allows manufacturers to quickly implement tru2way technology in their devices, and provides cable operators with a robust software implementation for developing their program guides and other tru2way applications.
