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 downloads. [...]
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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 all of [...]
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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% for July, the [...]
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