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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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