We’re trying something new on the blog. Starting this quarter I will be posting shipment numbers for the Motorola Home and Networks Mobility business on a regular basis. I’ve done it in a haphazard way before, but this blog will now be the home for these quarterly updates. Over time, you will be able to [...]
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In recognition of the need to bridge the gap to the Internet, both Comcast and Time Warner Cable have now said they will make select programming available online to TV subscribers in the second half of this year. Comcast’s Karin Gilford promised as much in a recent interview with NewTeeVee about the upcoming “On Demand [...]
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Verizon racked up another strong quarter according to the most recent earnings report. The telco has passed more than ten million homes with FiOS Internet service, and nearly that many with FiOS TV. Of those households with FiOS available, 26.8% subscribe to data services and 22.9% subscribe to video services. At the same time, Verizon [...]
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Last month I talked about 1080p 60 encoding in reference to producing 3D TV. Now it turns out Motorola is demonstrating the technology at the NAB show. Product marketing director David Hopkins is in charge of showing off the new Motorola SE-6000 MPEG-4 encoder and explaining the benefits of the 1080p 60 format. By itself, [...]
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Last year at the NAB Show, Motorola announced support for Active Format Description (AFD) in its MPEG encoding products. So it seems appropriate that this year around NAB time I have an on-site video to post showing AFD at work. In the video above, Motorola exec Marty Stein describes how AFD automates the output format [...]
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