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, but requires new [...]
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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 in [...]
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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 live viewers), there’s [...]
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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 Motorola’s Networks [...]
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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 traction until the [...]
