On the heels of the HBO announcement earlier this month, there’s more news now that Starz Entertainment will use a Motorola encoding system for its upcoming new HD channels (Starz Comedy, Starz Edge and Starz Kids & Family). Specifically, the technology will support Starz’s planned migration from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. Why go MPEG-4? Roughly speaking, [...]
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Craig Matsumoto started a thread on a Light Reading message board that had me in hysterics. Every year public relations firms start pitching products in the summer to reporters who are doing research for holiday gift guide articles. (Yes, the lead time is long.) While the strategy makes perfect sense for publications like Newsweek or [...]
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Cable operators face a catch-22. To attract premium subscribers they have to sell broadband service on the merits of the rich, multimedia experiences that a high-speed connection provides. Unfortunately, to support those rich experiences, they have to hope that most people won’t be overzealous in using them. Mark Cuban believes this means the Internet is [...]
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An article in The New York Times a few days ago suggested that growth in the HDTV market may be slowing. Should producers and network operators be worried given their hyper-focus on HD content and services? Nah. First, as the Times article points out, prices on high-definition TV sets will continue to drop, with great [...]
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Ages ago I drafted a paper on DRM transcoding with the help of some of Motorola’s top experts on the subject. The basic premise of the paper is that transcoding is critical to breaking down the barriers that prevent consumers from moving content across devices and networks. Voila: seamless mobility. Of course, DRM barriers have [...]
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