Video-on-demand is on a huge growth curve. The average VOD library size is expected to jump from under 10 TB in 2008 to over 20 TB in 2009, and, according to Pike and Fisher stats I’ve seen referenced, on-demand viewing is projected to jump from 9% of all viewing last year to 38% of viewing [...]
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Canoe, the joint venture tasked with nationalizing an advanced advertising platform for the cable industry, has been highly visible of late. After great secrecy in 2008, the organization is feeding information to the press in what appears to be almost a publicity campaign. Most recently, Todd Spangler at Multichannel News detailed early Canoe technical trials [...]
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Canadian cable operator Shaw announced a few short weeks ago that it would be launching a new 100-Mbps speed tier using DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. Shortly after that, Motorola claimed the success of its TX32 downstream module for channel bonding with a milestone release counting 1,000 modules sold. Here we are later in the same [...]
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Here’s a bit of news that cable and telco TV providers can rejoice in together. According to Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett, online video watching is not causing a drop in pay-TV subscriptions. Despite recent articles touting the cord-cutting trend, and high-profile experiments in dropping subscription TV service from industry personalities like Daisy Whitney, the [...]
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Sometimes all the news of the week needs is a little graphical interpretation. In honor of Newsweek’s old thumbs-up, thumbs-down feature, here are my opposable-digit picks of the last few days. DTV Transition Going Well – Despite all anecdotal evidence before the event to the contrary, it appears the transition to all-digital broadcasts is preceding [...]
Filed under: DOCSIS 3.0, DTV, Internet, Video | 1 Comment »
