Customer research goes on all the time within Motorola, and I found a gem earlier this week. A survey of cable subscribers with DVR and VOD services showed that respondents believe overwhelmingly that having VOD doesn’t make a DVR unnecessary. Granted these folks are biased because they already pay for both services, but [...]
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Zogby has a new poll out with some odd results. Apparently 52% of cable subscribers said they would prefer a-la-carte pricing, but only 39% believe it would save them money. Which means that for 13% of cable users, the idea that they’re only paying for the channels they want is more important than [...]
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Verizon’s policy blog has a video demo up of the company’s new 20/20 broadband service: 20 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream. I would guess that the vast majority of Internet users today don’t need 20 Mbps upstream capacity, but that’s going to change. One example: As today’s early-20-somethings start having kids, [...]
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From Multichannel News:
“Comcast has selected Motorola as a supplier for switched digital video, Motorola president and chief operating officer Greg Brown said on an earnings conference call with analysts Thursday.”
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Completely in line with analyst firm Kagan’s predictions for the cable TV market as a whole, Comcast announced in earnings today that it lost more basic video subscribers in Q3, but increased revenues overall.
What does this mean? It means cable is feeling the competition from its telecom rivals, but also that cable operators have [...]
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As market competition heats up, broadband service providers are looking at ways to differentiate their services with advanced applications. Cable has made a big push with VOD, Verizon has introduced Home Media DVR and TV widgets, and AT&T talked just today about lab trials with features like TV caller ID, IPTV webcams and podcast [...]
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Exactly whose idea was it to schedule the fall CTIA show and TelcoTV at the same time?
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The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) has announced MoCA 1.1, an extension to the 1.0 home networking standard that increases net throughput from 100 Mbps to 175 Mbps. Perhaps even more importantly, the extension provides for management and prioritization of multiple HD TV streams to be networked around the home.
Since Verizon’s introduction of the [...]
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Discussions have heated up around Verizon’s HD plans for FiOS, and there’s even a short war of words going on between EngadgetHD and Verizon’s policy blog. I’m still skeptical that Verizon has to get aggressive with its HD offerings immediately, but there is certainly a vocal group of folks who believe differently. In [...]
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According to Nielsen the number of US households with DVRs rose from 17.2% in May to 20.5% today. Hmm. Back in July the Carmel Group cited US DVR households at about 24% of the total population. So let’s split the difference between May and today and guesstimate Nielsen’s numbers at around 19% [...]
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