Cablevision Wants Its Own DTV Guide.(Cablevision Systems Corp. develops interactive program guide for digital cable television)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Multichannel News, August, 2001 by DONOHUE, STEVE

Shunning top interactive program guide vendor Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. is developing its own IPG for its digital-cable rollout next month. Though the Sony Corp. advanced digital set-tops Cablevision will use for the deployment are some of the most feature-rich boxes available today, sources said the IPG Cablevision will offer subscribers is fairly elementary when compared with Gemstar's TV Guide interactive product.

One source familiar with the company's plans described the IPG as a "teletext service" that will offer channel-listing information over several pages. The guide will list channel and program information. But the subscriber will have to punch in specific channel numbers in order to channel-surf....

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