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, all [...]
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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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There’s big and unexpected news out today. AMIMON, along with Motorola, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony have formed a consortium to develop a new standard for streaming multimedia content wirelessly across multiple rooms. The new standard will be based on AMIMON’s Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology, and is expected to be embedded in products [...]
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A couple of stats caught my eye this week illustrating that consumers have more content choices than ever. First comScore reported that 12 billion videos were served up online during the month of May. Sure many of those were probably YouTube videos of cute cat tricks, but 12 billion is still an awful lot.
Second, [...]
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When people think about security and IP traffic, they typically think about digital rights management (DRM), and all the attendant connotations that come with it. However, there are really two different types of security to consider: DRM that secures the content itself, and network security, which secures the transport of IP packets.
In the second category, [...]
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The cat’s out of the bag. Even though there’s been no official press release, CableLabs leaked and then confirmed that the Motorola MTR700 was one of two tuning adapters to be awarded certification in the recent Cert Wave 60. Quick recap: the tuning resolver is what will allow one-way cable devices to continue to access [...]
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Well son of a gun. Apparently the Olympics VOD screenshot I posted yesterday from Verizon FiOS presaged more than just second-tier, on-demand extras around the Games. NBC Universal just announced an official deal with Verizon to distribute on-demand clips and event replays on both FiOS TV and the operator’s V-CAST service.
It had seemed odd [...]
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