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| 05.13.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.12.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 04.28.2008 |
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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...
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| 04.24.2008 |
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SureWest Picks ADB DVRs
Advanced Digital Broadcast has been selected to supply HD, AVC ADB-5810WX IPTV DVRs to independent...
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| 04.07.2008 |
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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...
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| 04.03.2008 |
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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...
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| 04.03.2008 |
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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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| 04.02.2008 |
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IPTV Zone to Expand
The IPTV Zone at IBC2008 is being increased in size by 15.5 percent to more than 1,100 square meters. The...
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| 03.24.2008 |
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Study: 71 Million HD subs by 2012
SNL Kagan's newest study, "Economics of High Definition Cable Networks," estimates that cable and satellite high definition subscribers will penetrate 65.7 percent of...
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| 03.20.2008 |
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Cable's Hybrid Tech Game
The notion of "hybrid" is nothing new to cable technologists, who have a knack for combining otherwise disparate technologies. Consider fiber optics and coaxial cable. As the industry's HFC architecture and related network infrastructure continue to...
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| 03.17.2008 |
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IPTV Transitions
The Internet Protocol television (IPTV) marketplace is a busy, polyglot gathering of technology arms dealers and service providers of various stripes. At last week's IPTV World Forum, cable accounted for only one of six tracks (or "streams"). The...
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| 03.10.2008 |
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Beyond Blu-Ray's Victory
The emergence of a leading standard for high-density, optical disc storage has obvious repercussions for consumers and network providers. The first no-brainer is that content will shift to the Blu-Ray version of the 405 nm blue-violet laser storage technology...
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| 03.07.2008 |
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Digital (All vs. Switched) Economics
Whether and when to deploy switched digital video (SDV) are questions on the minds of strategists at cable operators both large and small. The variables of this puzzle are costs, budgets and alternatives. One window into the thinking at a second-tier cable op...
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| 03.04.2008 |
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Polish Op Deploys Harmonic VOD
Multimedia Polska S.A., a cable and IPTV service provider in Poland with more than 600,000 subscribers, has deployed Harmonic's on-demand solutions for its new VOD service launched last September. Multimedia Polska is the first...
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| 03.04.2008 |
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TV Predictions
Technology pundits typically offer annual forecasts in late December and early January. If you're a professional prognosticator, however, such as TV Predictions (link: http://www.tvpredictions.com/) CEO Phillip Swan, any month will do. Swan was a luncheon...
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| 02.29.2008 |
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Report: IPTV Will Be Game-Changer
A recent Yankee Group report says IPTV will redefine pay TV in the United States. According to "From Gorillas to Guerrillas, IPTV Changes Everything," IPTV will forever transform how telcos operate, changing...
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| 02.28.2008 |
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Broadcast Dinosaurs, Digital Formats and Bad Audio
Here's a riddle for you. What's the difference between dinosaurs and broadcasters? Give up? Dinosaurs had the decency to go extinct while broadcasters keep hanging in there. The preceding was brought to you courtesy of pre-NAB coverage as the creaking old...
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