BIAP Pitches Intelligent Set-Tops
By MCN Staff published
Remember the 1998 National Show, when Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates
talked to an animated parrot named Petey who was supposed to be able to run a
digital set-top by responding to voice commands?
Plano, Texas-based BIAP Systems Inc. unveiled an artificial-intelligence
product Friday that would soup up thin-client set-tops such as Motorola
Broadband Communications Sector's 'DCT-2000' and Scientific-Atlanta Inc.'s
'Explorer 2000,' possibly bringing such science-fiction ideas into reality.
Part of BIAP's pitch is that its software would expand the number of
applications MSOs can run on thin set-tops, alleviating memory problems that
have encumbered the boxes.
With most MSOs (excluding Charter Communications Inc. and Cablevision Systems
Corp.) abandoning advanced digital boxes, BIAP may find a willing market.
Executive vice president John Gregorie said BIAP has talked with Motorola and
S-A about embedding its technology in their set-tops.
BIAP may showcase its product at May's National Show.
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