I’ve been collecting content from panels, conversations, and demos, but it takes time to turn that raw information into coherent posts. So in the meantime, here’s a selection of photos from the Motorola booth on The Cable Show floor: 3D TV, new DOCSIS 3.0 retail modems, Internet apps on the set-top, and more.
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Despite my focus on The Cable Show, there is quite a bit going on over at CTIA this week too. (Why do they schedule these things at the same time?) As analyst Paul Kapustka of Sidecut Reports leaked last week, Motorola is conducting live LTE drives around the conference area, mimicking the driving demos at [...]
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Interactive TV got a bad name back in the nineties when poor execution (and financial meltdowns) took all of the momentum out of the iTV movement. So some people are quite reasonably skeptical when the topic of interactive television comes up today. Fortunately the environment – from technology standards to market competition – has changed [...]
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The first general session at The Cable Show was a Who’s Who of the industry. Moderated by William Kennard of the Carlyle Group, the panel consisted of Cox president Pat Esser, Suddenlink CEO Jerald Kent, Clearwire chairman Craig McCaw, and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Everyone was generally in agreement about cable’s issues and opportunities, except [...]
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I took the official Broadband Nation tour this morning. Among other demos, Motorola had on display tru2way apps for Flickr and Pandora, a social TV application for on-screen chatting, the MCUBE – now the Motorola MOVR, and TV on Demand. Pics below.
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