It’s official. Motorola’s DOCSIS 3.0 modems are out – one data modem and two digital voice modems. They support downstream channel bonding, IPv4 and IPv6, and advanced encryption services, which in plain English basically means faster Internet that’s good for consumer and commercial services. If you want to play the speeds and feeds game, Motorola [...]
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Plenty of people are covering the death of HD DVD so I thought I’d take a different tack here. Listening to NPR last night I heard a story that played tape from an old, old interview with a Sony executive on Betamax. Yes, Beta tapes died a sad death much like the HD DVD format [...]
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Favorite links from a holiday weekend of reading: Broadband Reports – $2 billion from Intel may bring national WiMAX network Light Reading – Comcast aiming to implement SDV in 15% of network this year EngadgetHD – Latest research confirms it – DVRs increase TV consumption Ars Technica – Retail sales staff don’t know much about [...]
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This is my official, one-year-until-the-digital-TV transition post. Consider it part primer, part Motorola perspective. Why are we having a digital TV transition? The original impetus behind moving to all-digital television was a regulatory push to reclaim broadcast channels for public/civic use. However, with the rapid growth of HDTV, on-demand television and streaming video on the [...]
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This was just too much fun not to post. See video from Barcelona below for WiMAX on a Segway. (Thanks, Michael!)
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