Three news stories are making the rounds that point to fundamental debates going on now in the pay-TV industry. These aren’t minor issues. They’re big, public, business-model-changing negotiations. First comes the latest comments from the NCTA on the FCC’s AllVid NOI. The NCTA does not want AllVid devices to force new unbundled content services on [...]
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Time Warner Cable announced this week that it’s taking the Look Back service out of field trials and into general availability. Close kin to Time Warner’s Start Over service, Look Back lets subscribers catch shows they may have missed up to three days after an original airing. The MSO is launching Look Back with 48 [...]
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Although it seems like a natural progression for cable set-tops to start integrating Internet-based content, there have been few indicators of actual activity in that area until recently. Now, several signs seem to point the way toward cable set-top convergence. First, Jeff Baumgartner reported in two articles over the last few weeks about Comcast plans [...]
Tis the season for industry conferences, and next up is TelcoTV. Motorola has several speakers queued for the annual event, including VP and GM Alan Lefkof, who will present a keynote speech on delivering converged media experiences. Expect to hear about companion devices and services for television viewing, as well as… …how advances in network [...]
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A few awards notices have crossed my inbox recently, including a note that the SecureMedia Encryptonite ONE solution has been named a finalist for the TelcoTV Vision Awards. The TelcoTV show starts up next week, and the third annual Vision Awards are being handed out by a range of executives and analysts from Light Reading, [...]
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