Wondering what to pay attention to in the world of broadband this week? Here are a few stories that have caught my eye.
Remote Storage DVR Gets a Green Light
Several pubs this week have covered the fact that cable operators now have the legal go-ahead to implement remote-storage DVR. This court saga began back in 2007 [...]
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For those of you who aren’t following an RSS feed of CableLabs press releases, the organization has just announced a new set of advanced advertising specifications. They go the by the unwieldy title of Stewardship and Fulfillment Interfaces, or the much easier SaFI for short.
SaFI consists of standards for sharing information contained in advanced advertising [...]
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Today is clearly the day for video processing news. In addition to this morning’s announcement of Motorola’s new bandwidth-saving satellite receiver, I have sneak peek information on another product to be highlighted at The Cable Show. The Motorola CAP-1000 CherryPicker platform is getting an application update. The new application provides a dedicated low-latency statmuxing capability [...]
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Canoe, the joint venture tasked with nationalizing an advanced advertising platform for the cable industry, has been highly visible of late. After great secrecy in 2008, the organization is feeding information to the press in what appears to be almost a publicity campaign. Most recently, Todd Spangler at Multichannel News detailed early Canoe technical trials [...]
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Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM has a post up today on the need for cable to focus on its core competency – video – in the wireless space.
If they can unify both the wired and wireless worlds in a way that makes it easy for consumers to manage, buy and watch content on a PC, [...]
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Readers of TechCrunch know the blog is focused on start-up companies, so the overlap between the subject matter there and the subject matter here is relatively small. But this morning there’s a post up from Erick Schonfeld that has everything to do with Motorola’s business and the business of the video industry as a whole.
Quoting [...]
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Reporters, analysts and amateur commentators far and wide are starting to prognosticate on how NBC will fare with its Olympics coverage. Unlike four years ago, online video viewing is more than a niche pastime, and NBC Universal has to balance its primetime broadcasts with content distribution on the Web. I see three major issues at [...]
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Following the Kagan “Getting Personal” conference last week, I had a chance to sit down quickly with Motorola’s Mark DePietro and Ray Bontempi to hear their thoughts. Above is a two-minute video I stitched together from that conversation.
Two notes: First, Mark refers to “See-Uh,” which is actually CEA, or the Consumer [...]
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The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo officially kicked off this morning with a general session including several high-profile speakers. Since the event is in Comcast’s hometown, both COO Steve Burke and CTO Tony Werner were on hand, as well as top execs from Cox, Charter, HBO, Showtime, Nortel and PBS. Burke laid out some of the changes [...]
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It’s been a long day of sessions at Paul Kagan’s “Getting Personal” conference on interactive TV and targeted advertising. Here are three key messages I heard on how to move iTV and advanced advertising to the next level.
Operators need an effective management system, including a management interface, for both their content assets and their interactive [...]
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