We hope everyone had a fantastic 4th of July last week! Entertainment has certainly come a long way since the first American television set emerged in 1928. In fact, MagnaGlobal predicts that more than 60 million U.S. homes will have DVRs in the next five years. Cable and streaming video technologies are continuing to spread [...]
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To continue with yesterday’s AT&T theme, here’s a look at some of the updates that came out of the company’s second quarter earnings announcement a few weeks back. AT&T had a phenomenal quarter, and U-verse VP Jeff Weber shared some of the reasons why this week in an interview this week with FierceIPTV’s Jim O’Neil. [...]
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AT&T has some pretty cool news out today with the announcement of U-verse Mobile 2.0 for the iPhone. The new mobile app not only lets U-verse TV subscribers program their DVRs, it also allows users to download certain TV shows to their mobile phones. (The cache-and-carry approach) There are limitations, of course. Downloads only work [...]
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Bit rates are improving on many fronts, but I came across a specific statistic last week that I thought was worth sharing. Since 2006, Motorola has continually improved encoding efficiency for AT&T’s U-verse TV service. Today, Motorola is operating at 63% of the data rate used just four years ago. That’s almost a 40% savings [...]
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This always happens during the week of earnings reports. We get the best information nuggets on what companies are doing and plan to do in the near future. To sum up, here are a few highlights from Motorola customers Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. Comcast, er, Xfinity Xfinity: No, Comcast isn’t changing the company name, but [...]
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