TV Software Updates, as a Service, continued

Steve Hastings, Engineering VP for Update Logic provided some answers and insight to some of the issues I mentioned about a new service being deployed that updates software on digital TVs. Thanks, Steve!

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A key point that Steve clarifies is that the Update Logic pipe is uni-directional, not bi-directional like I wrote.

About the household appliance software update issue, where I may need the OS in my microwave, Elmo doll, programmable thermostat, and dishwasher to be updated, Steve mentions that these devices can probably participate in the DTV-based update service if they have an embedded digital TV tuner. Since that may take a while, how about some sort of residential gateway device that has a DTV tuner on one side tuned into various update channels, and Wifi on the other for speaking to my Home-Area-Network (HAN) of devices/appliances that will someday be capable of being updated via wireless?

Posted at 01:47PM Nov 03, 2006 by Peter Schow in Sun  |