There was much buzz when the announcement came out that Sony is now working with the cable industry to develop tru2way TVs. The first wave of coverage suggested the set-top is quickly on its way to the dust heap of history. Then cooler heads prevailed in the second wave, suggesting that the Sony/tru2way initiative is [...]
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Live may be a bit of a misnomer since this is a recorded podcast, but the conversation here is with Motorola’s Floyd Wagoner, who was talking by phone yesterday from the ANGA cable show in Germany. Floyd discusses the surprising things he noticed at the US Cable Show last week – including the heavy interest [...]
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I’m not out at the ANGA Cable Show in Germany, but I am getting reports back. Yesterday I had a chance to talk with Motorola’s David Whitehead, a director of engineering for the Home and Networks Mobility business. He has been running DOCSIS 3.0 clinics on the show floor and reported some of what he’s [...]
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The ANGA Show follows on the heels of The Cable Show for a European look at the cable market. I’m hoping to get updates directly from the show floor, but in the meantime it’s worth noting that Motorola announced commercial availability of [...]
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Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, Steve Sawyer, Vice President of Government and Public Relations, Cox Communications, Diane Dysart, School Board St. Bernard Parish Schools, Doris Voitier, School Superintendent, St. Bernard Parish Schools, and Dan Moloney, Executive VP and President, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility.
It’s all fun and gadgets at The Cable Show, except [...]
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Here’s the Seagate eSATA drive for the Motorola DCH set-tops. Announced yesterday, it adds storage for the DVR – up to one terabyte’s worth of TV shows. That’s 200 hours of HD or 1,000 hours of SD content.
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In the future world of switched unicast, we’ll have our own personal video streams and advertisers will direct ads down to the individual. In the meantime, however, ad zones and demographic-based ad insertion are a lucrative intermediate step. In the video here (no sound), the Motorola CherryPicker platform is splicing different [...]
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Motorola announced a new set-top diagnostics platform today. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to devote to it now that it deserves, but in brief: the Smartstream Data Terminal Collector (STDC) lets operators monitor the quality of video being delivered to set-tops along with other stats, all from a remote location. Better customer [...]
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I found this handy little PowerPoint slide at one stop on Motorola’s Advanced Advertising tour in the booth. As you can see in the chart, video moves from the Motorola CherryPicker to the Motorola Broadbus video server now configured as an ad server. It goes from there to the switched video manager and eventually out [...]
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According to recent Motorola research, Millennials – defined here as 16 to 27 years old – have a good deal of influence on parental purchasing of TV entertainment gear. Granted, this could be a case of “I’m a legend in my own mind”, but the Millennials surveyed in the study overwhelmingly stated they had “some [...]
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