Media Experiences 2 Go

The NCTA conducted an interesting form of outreach last week. After apparently reading a number of unflattering and possibly inaccurate reports on switched digital video’s impact on CableCARD retail devices, the association put out the word that it would conduct a conference call briefing for any bloggers and journalists interested in discussing the topic. The [...]

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In a serendipitous moment, I had a call this morning to talk about DOCSIS 3.0 CPE updates, and I learned that J:COM in Japan has completed trials and is starting to install Motorola’s channel-bonding modems in subscriber homes TODAY. The latest status reports from the lab have found no issues with the SB6120 modems, and [...]

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Still catching up after a few days of vacation here. As I kick my brain back into gear, here’s a video from CTIA showing Motorola’s Venkat Eswara demoing the DH02. If you haven’t seen the mobile TV device in person, this is a nice close-up view. As a reminder, it runs on the DVB-H spec [...]

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Defining a cohort is far from an exact science, but describing generational behavior is still useful for analyzing broad trends. Much has been made, for example, of the buying power of Baby Boomers. And Gen X’ers are often lovingly referred to as the MTV generation. The latest cohort to make waves in [...]

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It’s got to be rare that a financial analyst is proud to predict an event that only has a 2% chance of occurring, but my friend and occasional sounding board Arnie Berman is quite pleased to do just that. His firm Cowen and Company published a report earlier this month titled Top 10 Potential [...]

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I made it back from CES and am recovering well. However, I have a backlog of content, so expect to see more CES-related posts for a while. Here are some photos of the Mobile TV DH01 announced last week. From top to bottom they are the main menu, a side view (the [...]

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There’s more video and commentary to come, but to wrap up today I thought I’d plug in a few photos from the Motorola booth for anyone who’s not at this gargantuan show we call CES.
This is a photo of the cordless IP phone that goes with the SBV5422 announced last week. See screenshots further [...]

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There will be a lot of WiMAX technology on display from Motorola at CES, including the new CPEi 100 single-data-port modem announced today. From the press release, the CPEi 100 will be “one of the devices used during CES on a demonstration WiMAX network built by Motorola in conjunction with Intel and Clearwire.” [...]

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Motorola has just launched the Mobile TV DH01, a portable TV player supporting the DVBH broadcasting standard.
Since I haven’t gotten hands-on time with the device, I’m going to keep this post limited to product specs. However, I did get a few questions answered that aren’t listed outright in the press release, [...]

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John Burke heads up Motorola’s digital video solutions business and has his own take on what’s coming next in the video biz. I had a chance to sit down with him just before the holidays, and here is some of what we discussed. Happy New Year!
Table Stakes in 2008
I asked John what offerings [...]

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