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Multi-Channel News: Out-of-the-Box with Comcast Anyplay, powered by Televation
Posted on February 6, 2012 by Motorola Mobility Home
If you’re a regular reader or a Comcast Xfinity customer in Denver or Nashville, you’ve probably heard about Comcast’s new AnyPlay service, which launched in January and uses Motorola’s Televation box to stream live cable TV to your tablet.
Leslie Ellis at Multi-Channel News recently got her hands on it and took down her first impressions. Here are some excerpts:
-“That’s where AnyPlay is different, and I’ll say it, better..”
- “…it’s an extension of the TV programming you already pay for…”
- “It’s a standalone box. No video outputs. Coax in, Ethernet out to the modem/wireless router, and voila: Television on the iPad. (Droids and other devices to come.)”
- “How does AnyPlay compare to the other lab streamers? Put it this way. The lab stuff is in a back room. All those screens, all those services, no TV at the desk! Until now. (I expect my quality of work to degrade precipitously.)”
Read the full story here: http://www.multichannel.com/blog/Translation_Please/33073-Inside_a_Comcast_AnyPlay_Installation.php
And find out more about Comcast AnyPlay at www.xfinity.com/anyplay.
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Top 5 Tech Articles You Might Have Missed – Week of Jan. 30
Posted on February 3, 2012 by Motorola Mobility Home
What good are your favorite TV shows, songs and photos if you can’t share them? Motorola Mobility’s Larry Robinson discusses how the company has opened the floodgates for content delivery and sharing. He highlights the company’s efforts to transform DVR recording units into home video gateways, designed to stream content to other IP-connected devices in the home.
The way we consume content has certainly changed as we grow more and more attached to our second screens. In fact, survey results show that the average Super Bowl viewer will check their mobile device up to 10 times during the game and almost a third of viewers will have their devices in hand while they watch the big game! Specifically, advertisers are leveraging social media as an opportunity to advocate their brands and keep viewers engaged. The value of these channels can be seen in Facebook’s public filing this week as the company seeks to raise a whopping $5 billion. Do you plan on using Facebook or Twitter during the big game?
1. Motorola’s New Strategy Brings Content to your Tablet (Jan. 28) By Jillian, PadGadget: Motorola has the details on how they would change the face of DVRs by replacing those recording units with home video gateways designed to move content between all of your devices and technology (including gaming consoles, computers, tablets, smartphones or other set-top boxes).
2. Super Bowl Viewers Will Check Phones 10 Times During the Game (Feb. 1) By Sam Laird, Mashable: Nearly half of Super Bowl XLVI viewers will check their mobile device as many as 10 times during the game, and almost a third of viewers under age 45 will watch the game “with device in hand.”
3. Super Bowl advertisers seek buzz on social media (Jan. 29) By Yinka Adegoke, Reuters: In the age of Twitter and Facebook, many Super Bowl viewers will use the commercial breaks to go online and see what people are saying about the game. This year, advertisers want them to tweet about their favorite commercials as well.
4. Facebook Seeks to Raise Up to $5 Billion in Biggest Internet IPO on Record (Feb. 2) By Brian Womack, Bloomberg: Facebook Inc., the social-networking website that in eight years changed the way the world communicates, filed to raise $5 billion in the largest Internet initial public offering on record.
5. TV’s Next Target: 4K Displays (Jan. 30) By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News: The next big leap in high definition TV is so eerily realistic, watching it is almost like looking out a picture window.
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IPv6 Webinar for Cable Operators
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Motorola Mobility Home
Join Motorola Mobility on February 8th @ 1pm EDT for a Webinar on “Making the IPv6 Transition for Cable” hosted by Light Reading. Geared to cable operators, this Webinar will cover transition challenges, trade-offs, and strategies for upgrading from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6. Mike Patrick, Motorola Data Networking Architect, will discuss the routing issues associated with ISIS vs. OSPFv3 and what it means to secure the host access verification with prefix delegation. Click here to REGISTER.
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Motorola Mobility Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Financial Results
Posted on January 26, 2012 by Motorola Mobility Home
Motorola Mobility today reported net revenues of $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, comparable to the fourth quarter of 2010. The Home business net revenues in the fourth quarter were $897 million, down 11 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. Here are some Home highights:
- Launched DreamGallery next-generation HTML-5 video navigation software inNorth Americawith Shaw Communications
- Expanded video leadership and paved the way forCanada’s move to all-MPEG-4 broadcast and On-Demand HD services with Eastlink
- Demonstrated market leadership with introduction of new carrier Ethernet product line for the deployment of cost-effective commercial services
- Introduced Motorola APEX3000, which delivers market-leading density to cost-effectively add greater demand for narrowcast services such as VOD and DVR
- Selected byAltiboxASinNorwayto provide VAP 2400 HD wireless video bridge to enable multi-room TV services
For more information, read the full press release here.
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Three Reasons 2012 Should Be a Good Year for Cable VOD
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Motorola Mobility Home
Author: Bob Scheffler, Director, Next-Generation Video Solutions
With all of the TV Everywhere buzz, it’s easy to let growing levels of cable VOD services slip under the radar. That’s a mistake. Here are three reasons why video-on-demand should have a banner year in 2012.
Narrowcast QAMs are getting cheaper and easier to deploy.
New high-density edge QAMs mean cable operators can implement additional narrowcast video QAMs more cost effectively and in greater quantities than ever before. At the same time, the cost of video QAMs used for VOD and other edge QAM-based services is falling rapidly. Video QAMs have dropped below the $100-per-downstream level, making it less CAPEX-intensive (from a QAM perspective) to add more VOD channels, and, for the time being, more cost effective than adding Internet capacity to support TV Everywhere services.
Canoe has big plans for VOD ad insertion this year.
According to Vice President Bruce Dilger, two to three cable operators are planning to deploy Canoe’s new platform for dynamic VOD ad insertion this year. Instead of waiting days or weeks to swap out a VOD ad, these operators will be able to switch up content within a 24-hour window, and they’ll be able to target specific audiences based on viewer demographics rather than just geography. The new ad platform means new revenue, and new revenue means more cable VOD growth.
VOD comes in HD.
While TV Everywhere services are multiplying, there is still no guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for HD content delivery. Online video is still a best-effort proposition and in some cases it faces downstream constraints found in lower throughput legacy broadband networks. On the other hand, because VOD is delivered over a managed network, cable operators can ensure the quality of HD content comes through to the intended audience. For the many viewers who want to take advantage of their HD flat-screen TVs, cable VOD will continue to have a leg up over online or over-the-top video for some time to come.
Resources:
- Video: Motorola APEX3000 High Density Universal Edge QAM
- Data Sheet: APEX3000
- More Information: Motorola Video Infrastructure Solutions
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