Bit rates are improving on many fronts, but I came across a specific statistic last week that I thought was worth sharing. Since 2006, Motorola has continually improved encoding efficiency for AT&T’s U-verse TV service. Today, Motorola is operating at 63% of the data rate used just four years ago. That’s almost a 40% savings [...]
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On a lighter note today, there is some great TV on tap for this weekend between March Madness college basketball and the Oscars. If you’re into NCAA action, the final Duke/UNC game of the season is scheduled for Saturday night. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait until then for your ACC rivalry fix. [...]
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Well here’s a new perspective. Retail DVR maker TiVo introduced new hardware last night at a New York event, and the unfolding press coverage has painted an interesting picture. Several reporters latched on to the fact that one of the UI screenshots showed an icon for Comcast VOD content. About 12 hours of excitement was [...]
Cable network architectures are in for some big changes. With more video being delivered over IP, we’re beyond just debating the merits of an integrated CMTS versus a modular CMTS. We’re leapfrogging to the next big architectural dilemma of how to converge video processing at the network edge where it meets up with with access [...]
If you’ve followed the TV tech industry at all, you know the difficulties associated with getting interactive television apps to market. Technologists and marketers have held out the promise of iTV for years with little to show for it. But slowly that’s changing. Two years ago CableLabs and Comcast put tru2way (aka OCAP) front and [...]
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