If you’re not living in Canada, chances are good you missed the announcement last week that Canadian cable operator Cogeco is planning an addressable advertising trial with Invidi in 2011. Motorola is also involved in the activity, working closely with Invidi and the broadcast station CHCH to deliver advanced ad capabilities to customer Cogeco. Advanced [...]
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Light Reading recently held a conference on cable commercial services, and the upshot is that cable has gotten serious on the business front. According to Jeff Baumgartner, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox have all joined the $1B club, with at least one billion dollars of revenue in commercial services. The consensus for the future [...]
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There’s lots of TV news making the rounds today, and interestingly, two of the three headlines below include Netflix. Is it any wonder cable companies are hot on OTT video for 2011? Cable Industry Grooms Its Netflix Killer: Vutopia By, Andrew Wallenstein — paidContent, Dec 7, 2010 6:30 PM ET It’s trendy nowadays to challenge [...]
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If 2010 was the year for kick-starting TV Everywhere initiatives, 2011 may be the year cable really gets into an OTT frame of mind. First there’s the mad rush to integrate TV services with mobile applications. Comcast’s Xfinity TV app is getting a major promotional blast, and the momentum has pushed CableLabs to create its [...]
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The subject of cable gateways and the FCC’s AllVid proposal have taken up a lot of virtual ink here this year, so as we look to wind things up for 2010, I thought I’d recap how the concept of networking IP devices in cable homes has evolved since 2009. The Router Plus Wireless Access Point Believe [...]
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