Amidst the stats in today’s Motorola earnings announcement is a note about continued uptake of MPEG-4. In the past quarter Motorola added several new MPEG-4 customers including DirecTV, HBO Latin America and Starz. Other signs pointing to growth in MPEG-4 AVC: DirecTV plans to introduce roughly 30 new HD channels in the next two weeks, [...]
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Interesting VOD stats out from Rentrak this week. Among the operators Rentrak surveyed, VOD orders were up 43% in 2007 over 2006, with an increase of 29% in the number of unique set-tops accessing on-demand content. (The numbers don’t include “adult” content.) Most of the orders were for free programming, but that doesn’t seem to [...]
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In a post yesterday, Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM equated broadband to electricity and public education. Everyone should have access. That’s true, and we certainly have a lot of work to do in some rural areas, but there is good news. Access speeds are increasing in the US, and by a significant margin. I remember [...]
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The Wall Street Journal got wind of a reorganization of the Motorola Home and Networks Mobility business. Naturally what has followed is a lot of speculation that the company is looking to sell off pieces of that group in a possible reverse spin-off of the Mobile Devices division. Even if I knew something about Motorola’s [...]
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Light Reading hosted a one-day event yesterday on Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies. While I wasn’t able to make it out to LA for the conference, I’m hoping to hear back soon from a friend who was on the ground. In the meantime, Jeff Baumgartner writes that Mark Cuban’s interview with analyst Alan Breznick was as [...]
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