Set-top box (STB) equipped with hard drive and capable of receivi...
Set-top box (STB) equipped with hard drive and capable of receiving DirecTV and at least 3 other services could be available by late 2002, DirecTV Global Digital Media Pres. Lawrence Chapman said. Device would combine services that are or…
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will be available in separate standalone DirecTV receivers this year including Wink Communications, AOLTV and UltimateTV. Latter 2 are built around TiVo and WebTV personal video recorder (PVR) technologies, respectively. All-in-one device could have 3 or 4 tuners, enabling it to receive several channels at same time, Chapman said. Current DirecTV-TiVo product has 2 tuners, only one of which is operational, with 2nd due to come online in midyear via software download, he said. STB also probably would have DSL connection option given DirecTV parent Hughes Electronics’ proposed acquisition of Telocity. “In the future we'll be able to consolidate on a platform that can run all these various services and let the consumers choose,” Chapman said. Gateway device also could play into DirecTV’s strategy for offering video-on-demand (VoD), first part of which is expected to revealed in first half of this year in conjunction with TiVo. “We could load those titles on a server overnight and have them ready for the viewer when they want to view them in VoD,” Chapman said.