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Will Cloud Kill The Set-Top Box?

  • Gigaom, Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:15 PM
At the NCTA Cable Show, Comcast showed off its cloud-based user interface that will make TVs function more like computers with, for example, social hooks and non-TV content apps like weather, and an improved search function.

But that means bye-bye to the set-top box. "What the cloud allows you to do is to have faster innovation," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts tells Gigaom. "Boxes have different generations, they become outdated... That doesn't happen in the cloud."

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