Picture above: William Helms, Time Warner Cable; Bryan Burns, ESPN; Bob Wilson, Motorola; Gary Traver Comcast Media Center Motorola pulled off a spectacular, if cozy, roundtable event this afternoon on the topic of 3D TV. In the room were execs from Comcast Media Center, Time Warner Cable, and ESPN. Coming on the heels of Comcast’s [...]
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Everyone’s shooting video at The Cable Show, and Motorola’s no exception. Here’s a short edited piece with some of the Motorola execs, and IDC analyst Greg Ireland. Ireland emphasizes that it’s not just content delivery that matters, but content management. Motorola’s Buddy Snow talks about what operators are clamoring for in the new era of [...]
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Remember that reference guide software I mentioned last week with the Motorola launch of Medios? Well I discovered a pretty cool embedded feature. It’s being called 4-way nav, and it lets you use the arrow keys on your TV remote to bring up different short menus. The main benefit is the ability to stay in-channel [...]
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The latest leaner-meaner-greener set-top is here. Today at The Cable Show, Motorola announced the new DCX3501-M, an HD multiroom-DVR set-top with 500GB of on-board storage. The new set-top supports tru2way, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and storage expansion via eSATA. It’s interesting to watch the new numbers war start up around set-top hard drive capacity. If one [...]
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You know that nice free-Wi-Fi perk a few cable operators have been handing out to subscribers? Well get ready for more free Wi-Fi access. Motorola is showing a cable Wi-Fi solution at The Cable Show and notes that a lab trial is already underway with one major MSO. I got the scoop from Motorola’s Brent [...]
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