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| 05.16.2007 |
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Pipeline Profile: Michael Adams
Title: Vice president of system architecture, Tandberg Television Broadband Background: Adams is responsible for overseeing Tandberg's architectural strategy across all product lines for the Americas and the development of next-generation technology...
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| 05.04.2007 |
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Cable Operators Join TVN's HD VOD Club
With sales of HDTV sets continuing to mushroom, cable operators are scrambling to provide more HD content to their customers, and HD is also a battlefront for cable against similar offerings from satellite and telecom providers. According to The National...
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| 05.01.2007 |
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Targeted Advertising: A Call to Action
For cable to offer a one-to-one experience between advertiser and viewer requires changes in standards, messaging and reporting. It also calls for ad sales and engineering to gain a deep understanding of each other's business....
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| 03.01.2007 |
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The Content King
Content is still king. Honoring that king - or rather the many claimants to that throne - calls for a propagation and distribution network that preserves the integrity of the content/customer relationship....
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| 02.27.2007 |
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A Different Sort of VOD
Optimum Lightpath, Cablevision Systems’ hard-charging commercial arm, has introduced a VOD offering unlikely to top any date-night list of things to watch...
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| 02.26.2007 |
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VOD: Tools of the Trade
Video on demand isn't exactly the new kid on the block anymore, but increased loads of on-demand services coupled with multiple vendors haven't made monitoring the systems any easier, and applications such as switched digital video (SDV) will only multiple...
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| 01.08.2007 |
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The Year of the Home - Network
If the pre-show vendor buzz at CES means anything, 2007 will go down as the year of the home network. Now that anybody with a wire – and even some without a wire – are pumping broadband into residences, vendors are queuing up with ways to move...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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Seamless Content on Demand
Making it happen means aligning network-based media centers, metadata translators, transcoding extensions to system resource managers, IMS and PacketCable adoption paths, new conditional access and licensing systems, and more....
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| 12.19.2006 |
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Pipeline Profile: Craig Smithpeters
OCAP, VOD...
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| 12.18.2006 |
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Survey Says Online Movies Not a Must See
While the sprint, or in cable's case Sprint, to get video clips to various devices resembles a gold rush from the 1800s, not all online videos are golden. A recent ABI Research survey of Internet users in North America found that only 5 percent of those who...
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| 12.18.2006 |
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Content Delivery System: What Cisco Did - and Hasn't Yet Done
Unveiling its content delivery system (CDS) earlier this month, Cisco Systems execs indicated that they had executed their plan for the technology acquired from Arroyo Video Solutions. Announced in August and closed in September, the Arroyo acquisition came a...
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| 12.18.2006 |
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On-Demand Paradox
Cable's on-demand platform is the ideal vehicle for advertising, but the industry's local nature impedes progress...
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| 12.14.2006 |
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
Digital video recorders (DVRs) are becoming about the most popular function a service provider can offer to video subscribers, but they don't come cheap. DVR-enabled set-tops equipped can run more than $500 – a whole lot of money to invest in a piece of...
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| 12.14.2006 |
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Just Call Him 'Sir Speedy'
Bill DeMuth, CTO at SureWest Communications, doesn't have any worries about bandwidth. He's delivering an unholy 100 Mbps to every residence in the company's 100,000-home fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) serving area in Roseville, CA. That's enough speed that the...
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| 12.07.2006 |
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SingTel Picks Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft for IPTV
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has been selected by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) for its IPTV trial, which began in October. Based on a combination of Alcatel-Lucent's services integration solution and Microsoft TV IPTV Edition...
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| 12.07.2006 |
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Cisco Pulling Together the Pieces of its IP Dream
For the nostalgic among us (or those whose brains just don't sort out the good from the bad), this used to be the time of year the cable industry would gather among browning Christmas trees withering under yellow skies at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim...
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| 12.04.2006 |
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Time Warner Cable Rolling with Interactive Services
The announcement last week that Time Warner Cable and BIAP Systems signed a long-term affiliation agreement between the two companies was validation for BIAP's suite of interactive services. Time Warner Cable has jumped on the interactive services bandwagon...
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| 11.29.2006 |
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Texas TV Station Deploys Harmonic Gear
On Wednesday, Harmonic Inc. announced that KXII TV in Sherman, Texas, a Gray Television station, had deployed Harmonic's DiviCom MV 500 MPEG-2 high definition (HD) encoders and MV 100 MPEG-2 standard definition (SD) encoders for its digital upgrade. According...
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| 11.29.2006 |
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Charter Launches Dynamic On Demand Ad Trial
Last week's news that Charter Communications is piloting the dynamic insertion of ads in its headquarters market of St. Louis was a harbinger of good news for both operators and advertisers. For cable operators, on-demand advertising will bring a much-needed...
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| 11.29.2006 |
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Time-Shifted TV on the Rise in Europe
While Time Warner Cable has worked to earn programmers' trust with its Start Over solution, Cablevision is duking it out in court with some of those same content providers over its network DVR solution. Meanwhile, time-shifted TV is less contentious over in...
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