No doubt we’ll see a flood of year-end and decade-end stories through the rest of this week, but already I have three wrap-up stories that top my list. Covering TV and technology, here are excerpts from three articles by Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, John Merli writing for TV Technology, and Robert Bianco of USA [...]
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Five years ago if you tried to get the media to talk about set-tops, you were usually laughed out the proverbial door. I distinctly remember one cover of a Forbes magazine with a big picture of a Motorola set-top splashed across the front. I remember it specifically because it was such a novelty. Set-tops were [...]
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Cable guru Leslie Ellis has published a list of What Your Cable Tech Friends Want Under the Tree. The answers are supplied by various cable execs, and are, as you might guess, quite tongue in cheek. Here are some of the best (oddly all from Charter execs!), along with a couple of my own wish [...]
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Om Malik published a post today on the state of global WiMAX based on a new WiMAX Forum report. It includes the handy map from the WiMAX Forum you see above, along with some key bullet points on WiMAX deployments to date. Om emphasizes the global nature of the WiMAX market (something Motorola has tried [...]
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Comcast made TV Everywhere official earlier this week with the launch of its Fancast Xfinity service. Not quite in time for Hanukkah, the online on-demand offering rolled out nationwide with content from AMC, A&E, CBS, HBO, and many others. If you subscribe to both Comcast high-speed Internet and digital cable, you can access on-demand television [...]
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