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Cablevision Give Subscribers TV On iPad

This week has already seen Dish Network announcing an upgrade to their mobile apps to let subscribers access their set top boxes remotely. Well Now Cablevision has said that their subscribers will be able to watch TV & catchup tv services on their iPads, there is a catch though: It will only work at home.

This strange solution was mentioned by Cablevision CEO Tom Rutledge during a quarterly earnings call: “When you look at an iPad, and you are in a Cablevision household, you’ll be able to get every service we provide — VoD, broadcast television, all of our expanded basic services.” While it’s service is a nice add-on, it fails on the TV everywhere goal, as Comcast puts it, “TV Everywhere,” where you’ll be able to access their services anywhere you can get an Internet connection. It’s unknown as to why Cablevision is only allowing access in the home to its “mobile” solutions, but I’m not sure that I’d be the happy subscriber a year down the line from now when my friends can watch TV on their portable devices thanks to their providers, but I can’t.

In other Cablevision news, the company is working on creating remote-control apps that will let you control your set-top box through an iPhone or Android phone, and it’s also testing a service that will beam Internet video to your TV, a.k.a. “PC to TV Media Relay.” It also hopes to release a Remote Storage-DVR by year’s end that replaces a physical DVR and is a whole home solution.

These developments pale in comparason when compared to the crippled mobile TV strategy. Hopefully for their subscribers, Cablevision will reconsider its plan and develop a true “TV on the go” platform. Until then, where is my iPad?

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3 Responses to “Cablevision Give Subscribers TV On iPad”

  1. [...] news comes soon after Cablevision has announced that subscribers can watch Catchup TV on their iPads. The battle for the iPad’s control over your TV is heating up. But whether or not consumers [...]

  2. I’m haven’t been able to find a beneficial reason to watch TV on my iPad when I have a huge HDTV. Now the DISH Network app seems to work better for me, I can do all of that at my house as well as on the go. Literally this morning I was on the bus on my way to work at DISH and I was watching Sports Center that I recorded last night. Not to mention DISH offers the lowest every day price in the industry, the choice is simple.

  3. I think it’s great for their customers that Cablevision is catching up with the rest of the industry but why make a mobility option and then allow to only work AT HOME< where the TV is?? Such a crippling limitation to saddle your customers with. As a DISH customer/employee, as stated above, I can watch live or recorded TV on a smartphone, laptop, or tablet ANYWHERE, not just sitting on my couch…in front of the TV…

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