Canoe marked an important commercial milestone last week with the launch of the first interactive TV ads in Comcast and Time Warner Cable markets. Although details are scarce, we do know that the potential footprint for these ads is pretty wide. As of last month, the public tally of EBIF set-tops from Motorola in Comcast [...]
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We’re likely to hear more about tuning adapters in the coming months as cable operators ramp up their switched digital video rollouts. And there’s more proof today that those ramp-ups are far more than rumor. According to comments by the NCTA, five of the largest US cable companies are already deploying tuning adapters, meaning they’ve [...]
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Regulatory oversight is a very important check in our government system of checks and balances. However, that doesn’t mean it always works. Two cable industry milestones in the last week illustrate this point vividly. First, the NCTA reported that the largest US cablecos have now deployed more than 21 million set-tops with embedded CableCARDs. (via [...]
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Parks Associates reported an interesting stat today on home video storage. According to a post on the firm’s blog, US broadband households will use almost one terabyte of storage for video at home by 2014. Sounds like a good argument for bigger DVR hard drives.
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Verizon has announced today a successful test of its 10 Gigabit-per-second XG-PON system, which resulted in symmetrical residential broadband speeds of nearly 1 Gbps. The test used Motorola PON technology, including existing AXS2200 OLTs with both new chassis cards and new ONTs supporting 10GPON. Here’s more from the press release. At the customer’s home, the [...]
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