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 for the [...]
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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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