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, while nearly [...]
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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. I [...]
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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 AT&T [...]
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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 suggest that we’re [...]
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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 the growing success [...]
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