People have long predicted the death of the set-top, and yet it’s alive and kicking. As part of today’s quarterly earnings presentation, Motorola announced that it has shipped 100 million digital set-tops to date. That’s Motorola all by itself. And half of that 100 million have shipped since October of 2006. Set-tops are only one [...]
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It’s time for another update on quarterly shipment numbers. To review data from previous quarters, click on the Category tab to the left and select Quarterly Shipment Numbers. Here are some of the highlights from Q4, with the full breakdown of numbers after the jump. Q4 2009 Shipment Numbers Home and Networks Mobility highlights: Shipped [...]
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The latest broadband stimulus awards were announced yesterday, with $310 million doled out by the Department of Agriculture for both “middle-mile” and “last-mile” projects. In the initial reports I read, it sounded like the last-mile allocations were being distributed widely among different types of broadband access technologies. The bullet points highlighted in most news stories [...]
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The boys over at EngadgetHD just ran a podcast interview with Motorola VP Bob Wilson on the subject of 3D. You can listen to the full 40-minute conversation for all of the details, but I thought I’d pick up on one of the discussion threads here. Will 3D finally push the TV industry from MPEG-2 [...]
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After speculating on a VOD tipping point last summer, I happened on two reports this week suggesting the moment has arrived. First, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran a study that concluded that children between the ages of eight and 18 are spending less time watching “regularly-scheduled TV” than they were five years ago. However, overall [...]
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