There is plenty of interesting material in the latest public comments filed by Motorola on the FCC’s AllVid Notice of Inqury (NOI). There is, for example, the part about conditional access, including when and where content protection should and could take place in the video delivery process. However, for the purposes of this post, I [...]
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This is one of the best Motorola videos I’ve seen in a while. The four-minute short embedded above details one small, rural pay-TV provider’s conversion to an all-digital system. TriCounty Telecom was locked at 60 analog channels it could deliver to subscribers on its 400 MHz plant. (And I thought 550 MHz was low!) By [...]
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There are a number of interesting discussions taking place now over different business models for paid TV content, but one current debate feels a bit like a throwback to 2007: the practicality of video streaming versus video downloading. Video streaming won out in the latter part of the decade for several reasons. First and foremost, [...]
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Telco TV has limited availability in the US today. Verizon and AT&T have passed significant milestones in a short period of time, but even with rapid growth, there are still plenty of areas without access either to FiOS or U-verse services. (My neighborhood included) Which is why I find it interesting that telco TV revenues [...]
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Every once in a while I manage to corner an executive for perspective on both Motorola and the industry at large. Recently I had a chance to question Rob McLaughlin, Senior Vice President & GM, Global Go-to-Market for the Motorola Home business. Here is part one of that interview. Stay tuned for part two next [...]
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