If you wonder why video on the Web is growing, look no further than March Madness On Demand (MMOD). I’ve been a fan of the application for years, which lets you view any and all of the NCAA basketball tournament games online for free. However, this year’s implementation was an astounding leap forward. The days [...]
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In the ongoing saga of the broadcast digital TV transition, the Associated Press is reporting (via EngadgetHD) that 158 more television stations are going all-digital before the final (?) June 12th deadline. Most of the stations are not big-4 network affiliates, and most are in small markets. PBS stations also make up a large portion [...]
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There is a great deal of discussion going on about how to use the federal government’s stimulus funding to increase broadband deployments in rural areas. This is not an area I’ve studied extensively so I’ll leave the analysis to experts. However, I thought it worth collecting a few of the relevant facts. First, of the [...]
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This morning Motorola launched the B-3 on-demand server, a Flash-based video server that handles anywhere between a few hundred and few thousand streams. It’s a complement to the Motorola B-1 and uses Motorola’s Adaptive Media Management (AMM) framework. Although the tangible piece of this announcement is the new server, the real news is how the [...]
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Multichannel News notes this morning that we’re closing in on the 10th anniversary of the DOCSIS standard. That doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but it’s worth a moment of reflection. We have DOCSIS to thank for the way we access cable Internet today. The standard makes cable equipment (including modems) interoperable, and the continued development of [...]
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