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Comcast shows off its new ‘Barcelona’ HD guide upgrade (Engadget)
We’ve already gotten a large eyeful of Comcast’s next-gen Xcalibur guide
that’s on the way next year with social networking tie ins and apps, but until
that arrives, what can we hope for on the existing Scientific Atlanta, Cisco,
and Motorola cable boxes? Sr. Director of Video Product Development Ted
Hodgins has the answer, dropping in a link to the company’s new Barcelona
guide that it is already delivering to Anyroom DVR customers in Florida now,
and will roll out in more markets before the end of the year. Like the
upgraded guides we’ve seen for FiOS and TiVo, this iteration is built for
HDTVs, with 16×9 graphics and far more listings information than was
previously available on one screen. Other new features include the option to
filter listings down to HD, premium, kids, movies, or sports content, easy
jumping between days and saved searches. When we first laid eyes on another
version of the software nearly four years ago we were impressed by its slick
looks, but while it’s still a major upgrade over the current decade-old cable
box interfaces, in 2011 it takes more than a simple facelift to impress us.
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