Comcast continues to maintain a high profile at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts announcing that its TiVo service has been launched in New England and will be made available in more markets throughout 2008.

The service will combine TiVo functions and features with Comcast services such as video-on-demand in a set-top incorporating a DVR.

Earlier this week, Comcast said it intends to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 in 2008 and said it will make it available to millions of customers before the end of the year.

The company will start by deploying the version of DOCSIS 3.0 technology designated “bronze” – the version that allows for channel bonding on the downstream only. Comcast will subsequently upgrade to silver DOCSIS 3.0, which features upstream channel bonding, when it becomes available, according to Mitch Bowling, Comcast’s SVP and GM of the company’s high-speed Internet (HSI) group.

Comcast also repeated its previously announced plan to begin rolling out a service, similar to Time Warner Cable’s “Start Over” service, by the end of the year.

Earlier this week, Comcast said it is working to vastly expand its HD VOD library (see story) and announced a new DVR, made by Panasonic, that relies on tru2way technology (see story).

The MSO also unveiled its new Web-based video service, called Fancast, which re-brands Hulu and expands it with content listings on TV and elsewhere.

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