There's almost no way this makes it into a terrestrial cable box outside of a few trial markets. Or with a few small cable providers. I say this as someone who spent 4 years working for a large cable co building software that runs on cable boxes.
There's a bunch of reasons but here's two.
1. The large cable co's aren't generally going to deploy software controlled by a 3rd party. Microsoft has spent years banging their head against the wall that is the large telco with little success.
2. Cable already has a mature cable box focused software stack standard called tru2way which is already getting more traction then Android likely ever will in cable STB space.
The cable space is not normal and they don't make what appear to be rational sw decisions to the internet crowd.
Dish is an outlier and doing everything they can to compete but I wounldn't even count on them going into wide deployment with this.
This will live on CE devices, not cable and satellite STBs.
There's almost no way this makes it into a terrestrial cable box outside of a few trial markets. Or with a few small cable providers. I say this as someone who spent 4 years working for a large cable co building software that runs on cable boxes.
There's a bunch of reasons but here's two.
1. The large cable co's aren't generally going to deploy software controlled by a 3rd party. Microsoft has spent years banging their head against the wall that is the large telco with little success.
2. Cable already has a mature cable box focused software stack standard called tru2way which is already getting more traction then Android likely ever will in cable STB space.
The cable space is not normal and they don't make what appear to be rational sw decisions to the internet crowd.
Dish is an outlier and doing everything they can to compete but I wounldn't even count on them going into wide deployment with this.
This will live on CE devices, not cable and satellite STBs.