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VOD: Satellite Killer or Bundle Filler?
Cable360
March 8, 2004
At first blush, video on demand should be an ace in the hole for cable operators. It's a product satellite providers can't offer, which should give MSOs an edge in the cutthroat race to snare customers. But VOD may not be as potent a competitive...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/15707.html
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VOD Snaphots
Cable360
August 1, 2006
Comcast ramps up HD VOD, Cox crunches numbers and Verizon launches VOD over GPON. Video-on-demand (VOD) has come a long way since cable operators launched the first movies in 2001. In the beginning, it was all about getting movies to customers...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/advancedsvcs/18548.html
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In the Year of the Pig, Cable Is Getting Fat on Asian VOD
Cable360
January 22, 2007
The Chinese calendar says Feb. 18 begins the Year of the Pig the new year 4704. But for Chinese-Americans and other Asian-American cable subs, this year might also be remembered as the one when several MSOs transitioned Asian-themed VOD from a...
http://www.cable360.net/programming/shows/21683.html
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On-Demand Advertising in the Slow Lane
Cable360
September 25, 2006
In March 2005 Brian Roberts hand-delivered a gift to Madison Avenue: a commitment to report video-on-demand data metrics to help advertisers invest in cable s cutting-edge advertising platform. In a keynote address at the American...
http://www.cable360.net/business/operatorsmsos/19833.html
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VOD: Care and Feeding
Cable360
December 1, 2008
The video on demand (VOD) environment is one of the most complex networks in cable's portfolio of services, in some ways being even more technically challenging than our voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service. In addition to VOD networks'...
http://www.cable360.net/features360/ct/32737.html
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VOD Expansion
Cable360
April 1, 2009
Cable operators have an opportunity to overcome impediments to immediate expansion of video on demand (VOD) programming capacity through use of new technology that leverages existing network resources to produce significant gains at minimum...
http://www.cable360.net/business/operatorsmsos/34899.html
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Paradigm Shifts: Remote Storage DVR
Cable360
May 1, 2009
Since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling in August 2008 that gave Cablevision's remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) service the green light, industry experts have been assessing the impact and wondering what it...
http://www.cable360.net/business/regulation/35447.html
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VOD Infrastructure Evolution
Cable360
October 1, 2005
Video on demand (VOD) was embraced and introduced by the cable community in the late 1990s to differentiate its video product offering from that of the direct to home satellite community. Utilizing the unique ability of the hybrid fiber/coax (HFC)...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/emergingtech/15242.html
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Video on Demand
Cable360
December 1, 2007
While clearly maturing, video on demand (VOD) is not necessarily aging. As one might expect from this stage in its product life cycle, VOD is now reaching into niche areas, such as international and small-system markets (see sidebar on page 39.)...
http://www.cable360.net/video/26894.html
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Cable on Demand?
Cable360
May 17, 2004
Blockbuster, Netflix and Wal-Mart should be paying as much attention to cable's VOD rollouts as Wall Street, and with good reason: Cable's video-on-demand offerings have the potential to become more popular with customers than traditional DVD/video...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/16114.html
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Video on What?
Cable360
February 7, 2005
If 2004 was marked by "Only Cable Can" and loving cable more than puppies (among other things), then the upcoming year should see the industry developing a unified message for its video-on-demand programming. That's one of the main goals for CTAM's...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/15545.html
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Interoperability and Video-on-Demand:
Cable360
September 1, 2004
Recently operators have been pursuing with great fervor the development and deployment of next generation video-on-demand (VOD) architectures. These "next-gen" architectures seek to provide fertile soil for growing a diverse vendor community in...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/strategy/15191.html
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Cable s Content Gatekeepers, Part III
Cable360
August 27, 2007
As we ve seen in parts I and II of this series, the future of the cable content business could best be summed up by lyrics from the 1972 musical Pippin, where the wise, old grandmother tells an uncertain, young Pippin, "If there s one thing to be...
http://www.cable360.net/business/operatorsmsos/25278.html
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Getting Personal with VOD
Cable360
May 1, 2006
Digital program insertion (DPI) has pretty much hit the mainstream now that most large cable operators have become fully engaged with digital simulcast deployments, but there remains another hurdle on the horizon for DPI. The next frontier for DPI...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/emergingtech/15039.html
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CMC, C-COR Unveil 'VOD in a Box' For Smaller Operators
Cable360
February 1, 2007
Wave Broadband didn't have any problem connecting its various systems via fiber in its Puget Sound footprint in order to deliver VOD services, but its Ventura, CA, system was on an island. Wave Broadband will be able to deliver VOD to the...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/21871.html
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ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A With Matt Strauss
Cable360
November 8, 2004
By Shirley Brady Since former Mag Rack general manager Matt Strauss joined Comcast in early June as its first VP for On Demand programming, reporting to EVP programming investments Amy Banse he's been busy developing Comcast's first proprietary VOD...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/16553.html
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Getting Personal With VOD
Cable360
March 16, 2006
Digital program insertion (DPI) has pretty much hit the mainstream now that most large cable operators have become fully engaged with their digital simulcast deployments, but there s still another hurdle on the horizon for DPI. The next frontier...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/18466.html
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Ratings by Rentrak?
Cable360
October 18, 2004
A little more than a year ago, executives at interactive digital music network Music Choice were looking at ways to measure their growing audience of music lovers. The company was trying to track and report usage effectively, and it contemplated...
http://www.cable360.net/programming/ratings/16800.html
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Signal to Noise
Cable360
March 16, 2006
Getting Personal With VOD Digital program insertion (DPI) has pretty much hit the mainstream now that most large cable operators have become fully engaged with their digital simulcast deployments, but there's still another hurdle on the horizon for...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/18469.html
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Follow the Leader: Kids Show Cable the Way to VOD
Cable360
July 30, 2007
Kids love watching their favorite TV shows and characters. Over and over. Try wresting the remote from a 9-year-old engrossed in said entertainment source and you know just how deep that bond runs. While this phenomenon may cause endless...
http://www.cable360.net/business/marketing/24810.html
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