Media Experiences 2 Go

CableLabs put out a release earlier this week on a new device to give retail CableCARD devices access to switched digital video services. And folks have been clamoring for details ever since. (Dave, Jeff, that means you…)
Here’s what I found out.
First, the cable industry is moving quickly. As much as consumers don’t want [...]

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With the exception of visible filth and the smell of cigarette smoke, nothing bothers me more about a hotel stay than having a flaky Internet connection. Clearly I’ll have to book at Marriott in the future.
Motorola announced a deal yesterday with Marriott to provide Motorola’s mT2a PowerBroadband system in Marriott-branded hotels. The system [...]

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Stephanie Mehta at Fortune recently interviewed Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and Om Malik posted a follow-up breaking the interview down into categories of questions with summaries of Roberts’ answers. Here are three items I found interesting:

Roberts called online video more of an opportunity than a threat because cable can deliver a fast connection for [...]

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There’s a (relatively) new acronym making the rounds: RFOG, or RF Over Glass. In brief, RFOG is a category term for technology that lets cable operators use traditional back-office cable equipment with new fiber-to-the-home deployments. In greenfield situations, even cable operators want to put fiber in the ground, but they’d rather not pay [...]

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So much going on, so little time to cover it all.
Switched Digital Video – CableLabs made it public this morning that several companies working together (including Motorola) have developed a solution to deliver switched digital video (SDV) services to retail CableCARD devices. With cable operators keen to roll out SDV in order to save [...]

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Here’s a tidbit before Turkey Day, once again dug out of Motorola primary research. Among households with both digital video recorders (DVRs) and Video on Demand (VOD), the amount of live TV being watched has slipping dramatically. A full 40% of respondents said they mostly watch a mix of broadcast TV and recordings, [...]

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I’ve been wondering for a while if pockets of high-speed broadband will lead to mini population booms in specific regions. A new study out by the Sacramento Regional Research Institute (on behalf of AT&T) doesn’t address that issue specifically, but it does show a high correlation between broadband adoption and job creation in California. [...]

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Bob Larribeau reports that TeliaSonera now has more than 276 thousand IPTV subscribers, in large part due to a big push in Sweden during the third quarter of this year. In comparison, AT&T announced in September that it had reached 100 thousand IPTV subscribers in the US via its U-verse service.
Both TeliaSonera and [...]

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Two articles caught my eye recently. The first from Light Reading reports that Comcast is planning to deploy multi-room DVR service in 2008. The second from analyst Bob Larribeau reports that Verizon is pushing the MoCA alliance to upgrade the MoCA standard to 400 Mbps in the next two years. Both articles [...]

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The overwhelming majority of video content online is short clips and snippets, while TV programming is typically no less than half an hour. Lately, though, I’ve seen more and more of the opposite. As professional content finds its way to the Web, more of what’s available online is longer video. Conversely, with [...]

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