Posted on May 6, 2007 by Mari Silbey
The drama continues as we roll closer and closer to the July 1st CableCARD deadline. Late last week the FCC granted waivers to Charter Communications, Millennium Telecom and General Communications Inc., giving those operators a much-desired reprieve from the requirement to ship only CableCARD-enabled set-tops in the second half of this year. The [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2007 by Mari Silbey
The last time I wrote about Downloadable MediaCipher (a precursor to DCAS), I got a question about how Motorola DM compares to Widevine’s downloadable security solution. I’ve done some digging and discovered that the most important difference seems to be the target market. Widevine’s technology is IP-based, while Motorola DM is designed specifically [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2007 by Mari Silbey
Follow FCC filings? Maybe you noticed a letter to Chairman Martin about Motorola’s new Downloadable MediaCipher (DM) security solution. If you’ve been tracking the CableCARD wars, the DM submission to the FCC is a pretty big deal. On the one hand there’s CableCARD technology, which satisfies the FCC’s call for separable security, [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2007 by Mari Silbey
Earlier this week Time Warner announced it was ending a trial that allowed subscribers to watch cable television on their PCs. Aside the from the question of why you’d want to watch TV on your PC rather than your… um… TV, the test brought up an interesting technical dilemma. Time Warner converted its [...]
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