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As a world leader in consumer and business electronics, Panasonic has been a key pioneer in the development of set-top box and OpenCable? Applications Platform (OCAP™) technology products. Panasonic?s OCAP Development History includes:

   
2002
  • Panasonic?s visiting engineers at Cablelabs made significant contributions to the standardization of OCAP and OCAP Extension specifications, and towards the development of OCAP Conformance Test Suites.
  • Panasonic shipped the World’s first DVB-MHP compliant product.
2003
  • Collaborating with Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Panasonic demonstrated 2-way OCAP End-to-End Prototype System with Motorola and Scientific Atlanta headends at both the CES and NCTA trade events.
2004
  • Panasonic achieved the world?s first download of an OCAP Monitor application using two-way CableCard at the CableLabs OCAP Interoperability Event.
2005
  • Panasonic unveiled the world?s first OCAP-DVR prototype Set-Top Box at the NCTA Show with an OCAP version of iGuide, an Electronic Program Guide developed by GuideWorks.
2006
  • Panasonic completed integration of OCAP, DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway, and CableCARD with the OCAP Network system.
2007
  • Panasonic demonstrated both an OCAP Set-Top Box and an OCAP-enabled television built with different System Large Scale Integration (LSI) devices running identical OCAP Guide Applications and proved the maturity of its OCAP implementation.
  • Panasonic delivered its advanced OCAP HD-DVR Set-Top Boxes to key customers for testing and development.
  For more information on the technology behind OCAP, click here.
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