Cablevision Give Subscribers TV On iPad

Dish Network announcing an upgrade to their mobile apps to let subscribers access their set top boxesremotely. Well Now Cablevision has said that their subscribers will be able to watch TV & catchup tv services on their iPads, there is a catch though: It will only work at home. This strange solution was mentionedby Cablevision CEO Tom Rutledge during a quarterly earnings call: “When you look at an iPad, and you are in a Cablevision household, you’ll be able to get every service we provide — VoD, broadcast television, all of our expanded basic services.” While it’s service is a nice add-on, it fails on the TV everywhere goal, as Comcast puts it, “TV Everywhere,” where you’ll be able to access their services anywhere you can get an Internet connection. It’s unknown as to why Cablevision is only allowing access in the home to its “mobile” solutions, but I’m not sure that I’d be the happy subscriber a year down the line from now when my friends can watch TV on their portable devices thanks to their providers, but I can’t. In other Cablevision news, the company is working on creating remote-control apps that will let you control your set-top box through an iPhone or Android phone, and it’s also testing a service that will beam Internet video to your TV, a.k.a. “PC toTV Media Relay.” It also hopes to release a Remote Storage-DVR by year’s end that replaces a physical DVR and is a whole home solution.