I can exclusively reveal that On Digital Media's (ODM) pay television platform TopTV has no plan - and is currently in no position - to launch a personal video digital recorder (PVR), or turn its current TopTV decoder into a PVR anytime soon. In fact, I can exclusively spill the news that TopTV will only launch a PVR decoder, and enable its current TopTV decoders (that only needs a small adjustment) at the end of next year at the earliest.
While rumours are now circulating that TopTV has imminent plans to ''launch'' a TopTV PVR decoder, and that the TopTV call centre are telling callers that TopTV plans to have a PVR ready by the end of November, or that the pay TV operator will have them out early in 2011, immaculate sources from inside TopTV are telling me exclusively that TopTV's PVR plans are only set for way later in 2011.
''We will only launch a PVR late 2011 or even early 2012,'' TopTV highest level execs tell TV with Thinus, dispelling all the rumours and expectations surrounding a TopTV PVR that's bubbling to the surface at the advent of the silly season. What I can tell you is that the actual truth of the matter right now is that ODM has not even started looking at PVR functionality for its TopTV decoders, although latent PVR capacity already exists. ''We will only start the development work early next year,'' I'm told.
