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 [...]
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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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