Back in the spring I posted a video of Motorola Technical Fellow Dr. Sean McCarthy discussing the concept of perceptual video processing (PVP). A PVP plug-in is used in Motorola’s next-gen encoding platform to improve compression and decrease the bandwidth needed to transmit high-definition television. In the footage here, Motorola’s Andy Hooper shows two video streams [...]
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Canoe Ventures has been laying low since a bout of frenetic activity in 2009, but the organization, charged with creating an advanced advertising platform for the cable industry, finally has some news to celebrate. Canoe CEO David Verklin has announced that five cable networks are now taking orders for national interactive ad placements. The two [...]
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Comcast launched its TV Everywhere service last December amid heated debates over how cable providers could compete with existing over-the-top TV applications. Now called Xfinity Online TV, the service is set to emerge from beta next month. We’ve heard very little from Comcast directly about how its online TV offering has fared since its introduction [...]
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Managing upstream bandwidth is a critical issue for cable operators today, yet it still carries quite a bit of confusion. Now that DOCSIS 3.0 is widely deployed, there are questions about whether analog return paths are sufficient for upstream traffic, or whether operators should be migrating to digital returns. Not surprisingly, the situation is a [...]
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Rarely do I get to talk about enterprise broadband on this blog, but today is an exception. Motorola announced a deployment with Getty Images in London of its Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution. The company launched POL last year, and has made steady progress in the enterprise environment with the all-fiber technology. In Getty’s case, [...]
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