The FCC released its national broadband plan today, and the Web is buzzing with commentary and analysis. Motorola hasn’t put out any public comment on the plan yet, but I thought it would be worthwhile to publish a couple of excerpts from an earlier Motorola filing during the FCC information-gathering period. See below for two [...]
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Over the last six months to a year, IP video has catapulted to the top of television tech industry discussions. If you’re wondering why, wonder no more. The answer is Comcast. Comcast issued its specs for a Next-Generation Access Architecture (NGAA) last March and since then has pushed the IP conversation forward globally. The fact [...]
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The headline above doesn’t strictly parse, but it still points to an interesting question. In a world where the argument for flat-fee broadband is fought regularly in the public forums of tech blogs and Twitter, where does actual Internet usage stack up? Jeff Baumgartner is finding out as part of Comcast’s trial of its new [...]
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Get out your glasses. College basketball is coming at you in 3D. CBS Sports has announced it will produce the NCAA Final Four games and tournament championship this year in 3D. And while technically the games will take place in early April, the March Madness season is sure to get extra buzz from the 3D [...]
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There are a whole lot of reasons why set-tops haven’t shared an operating platform with other computing devices before now: content security, differences in delivery architectures, feature/function priorities, etc. However, both computing hardware and delivery networks are converging. A set-top has more in common with a PC today, and there is a gradual shift toward [...]
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