It’s impossible not to get excited about the rapid innovation taking place in Web video – from Joost’s upcoming P2P service with “real” TV channels, to Sling Media’s SlingCatcher, to Apple TV. Not everything new will succeed, but even when it doesn’t, the innovation puts pressure on video industry Goliaths to deliver better products [...]
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Looking for something to do on April 12th at 10:00 AM EDT? Check out CED’s webcast on “Launching ultraband services with DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding”. There’s a great group of panelists including Leslie Ellis, Motorola’s Mike Cookish, Gartner’s Patti Reali and StarHub’s Thomas Ee. More on this later.
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If there’s anything that was clear at the CEA Washington Forum yesterday, it was the level of crossover that’s now taking place between the consumer electronics industry and the realm of cable, telco and wireless networks. This was particularly highlighted in the “Transition to Digital Television (DTV)” session.
Moderated by Brian Cooley from CNET, DTV [...]
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More Motorola news today, of the good kind. With Danish telco TeliaSonera, Motorola is deploying a voice gateway for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services. In plain-speak, here’s what the gateway does: If you’re on a dual-mode phone (cellular and Wi-Fi) outside the home and you then walk into range of your home Wi-Fi connection, [...]
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What do the CEOs of the Consumer Electronics Association and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association have in common? They were both on stage today in a panel at the CEA Washington Forum.
The Digital TV panel was definitely the highlight for me in today’s round of sessions. I’ll have a full [...]
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Follow FCC filings? Maybe you noticed a letter to Chairman Martin about Motorola’s new Downloadable MediaCipher (DM) security solution. If you’ve been tracking the CableCARD wars, the DM submission to the FCC is a pretty big deal. On the one hand there’s CableCARD technology, which satisfies the FCC’s call for separable security, [...]
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Thanks to Dave Z. for finding the late-night article in Multichannel News about a District Court’s decision to rule against Cablevision in its bid to deploy a network-based DVR service. Sued by several studios and networks, Cablevision believes copyright law is on its side because network DVR would work very similarly to DVRs installed [...]
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TV when you want it, where you want it may be the wave of the future, but as long sports exist, there will be event TV. Roll on over to CBS for a live look at the thrashing Tennessee is currently giving #1-seed Ohio State.
And where there’s event TV (lots of [...]
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If you haven’t heard, Motorola revised its earning expectations based on the performance of its Mobile Devices business and is saying goodbye to its CFO. The COO, Thomas Meredith, will take over as acting CFO and Greg Brown will take charge as Motorola’s president and COO. Mr. Brown until now has headed up [...]
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There is a big difference between consumer interest and consumer adoption. People expressed interest in VoIP for years, but it never reached any kind of mass adoption until operators threw it into their triple-play bundles. Same with TiVo. Lots of people talked about how great it was, but DVRs got no real [...]
