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07.17.2008		MediaHawks, BlackArrow, Personal Apps Video on demand (VOD) news over the past several weeks includes purchases, integration and new applications. Concurrent Computer last week announced a $2 million order from Time Warner Cable for VOD systems destined for deployment in the MSO's San Diego and...
07.01.2008		Bullpen: DTV Transition: 8-VSB + QAM = Win/Win Editor's note: For various reasons, the authors of this piece would prefer to go unnamed. They are, however, respected cable engineers, one for a major MSO and the other for a vendor. Putting a couple of freethinking engineers in front of a white board can be...
07.01.2008		Advanced Advertising Progression The old advertising maxim holds that half of all money spent on advertising is wasted, but the problem is knowing which half. With the emergence of online advertising, this statement is now virtually obsolete. These days, search engines target ads based on...
06.30.2008		Cooperate and Coordinate for the Great Analog Turn-Off As with most things in life, the devil is in the details for the broadcast digital TV transition. Without communication and cooperation between operators and broadcasters, cable subscribers could have TV sets that do go dark. "Feb. 17 will be a scotch...
06.26.2008		SDV: Find the Right Mix Switched digital video (SDV) promises bandwidth savings for operators, but they must go beyond the how and why of the technology to strike a delicate balance. "Trying to design SDV becomes a tradeoff between balancing supply and demand," said...
06.26.2008		Interactive TV and Advanced Advertising: Enriching the customer viewing experience through interactivity was the focus of this session on Interactive Television and Advanced Advertising presented by Steven Riedl, principal architect, Time Warner Cable, and Roy Hasson, customer solutions architect...
06.01.2008		All Digital The much anticipated migration of analog to all-digital networks is not only prompting a flurry of creative new business models and technology strategies, but also a wholesale re-evaluation of cable systems themselves. Capital expense questions, operational...
06.01.2008		Bullpen: From Broadcast to Unicast In my last column, I argued that one network is better than two for video delivery. In this column, I want to talk about the mode of delivery of video services. Of course, the original delivery mode was broadcast, and cable networks can trace their roots to...
05.20.2008		Any Stream to any Screen Gaining Momentum Moving video content to multiple devices is emerging as a must-do business model for cable operators and content providers alike, but pesky technical challenges, along with some serious back office and rights management issues, are slowing its progress. That...
05.20.2008		A Hitch in the DTV Test Here's a long response we received to last week's question about whether the Wilmington, NC, market is too small a venue for a meaningful test of digital transmission for over-the-air broadcast. The author, Steve Liebenow, is the headend manager for TiVo in...
05.13.2008		DTV Transition While the rest of the country will transition to digital TV in February 2009, Wilmington, NC, will make the switch early, on Sept. 8 this year, the Federal Communications Commission announced last Thursday. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said FCC Commissioner...
05.12.2008		All-Digital and Switched (continued) Has the pendulum swung away from switched digital video (SDV) and toward an all-digital delivery of TV service? If so, will it swing back to SDV? Whether and when to deploy SDV is a matter that turns on several variables, headend economics being one of the...
05.05.2008		Moto Upgrades CherryPicker Motorola has announced the latest software enhancement for the CherryPicker Application Platform (CAP-1000), version 2.0. In addition to MPEG-4...
05.01.2008		IPTV Strategy As befits an emerging technology, Internet protocol TV (IPTV) is hard to nail down. The total estimated number of international subscribers is a matter of educated guesses. Standard definitions of terms are missing. Some analysts, for instance, exclude...
05.01.2008		Digital Ad Overlays Though advertising has long been a money-maker for cable, the growth of ad sales has not been particularly quick, despite the urgency operators feel to increase revenues. The positioning of new and existing technologies promises to help operators expand this...
04.28.2008		CableCard Conversation The NCTA hosted a teleconference last Friday aimed at providing corrective context to discussion posted on some technology blogs about CableCards. One of the targets of this call was what NCTA General Counsel Neal Goldberg called the "perception that...
04.24.2008		SureWest Picks ADB DVRs Advanced Digital Broadcast has been selected to supply HD, AVC ADB-5810WX IPTV DVRs to independent...
04.07.2008		NAB and Video Processing Based on ongoing conversations with digital video experts, here are several technology trends that may be surfacing at this year's NAB Show, which opens this Friday in Las Vegas. 1080p. Keeping 1080 progressive scan (p) vs. interlaced (i) HDTV content away...
04.03.2008		TWC to Add HD Channels in NY, NJ Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey is poised to carry 100 HD channels and add more than 250 HD On Demand choices by the end of 2008 across the company's...
04.03.2008		CEA: "Convert Your Mom" to DTV To encourage baby boomers to help their elderly parents, relatives, and neighbors get ready for the February 2009 digital TV transition, the Consumer Electronics Association has enlisted actress...
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