Motorola’s been showing off a reference UI for the TV since The Cable Show back in May. The demo got a few updates at IBC last month, and now at SCTE it’s gone through another upgrade. The goal here is to show what’s possible when you shift to HTML to design a program guide. Suddenly [...]
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The recent acquisition of Sling by Echostar certainly suggests that the big guys in the biz value a little technology called place-shifting, and that the little guys still need big pockets to move their technology forward. So with the place-shifting market starting to mature, here’s a look at what has and hasn’t already been accomplished. [...]
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Video streaming is great for YouTube, but fairly lousy for traditional TV and movie entertainment. (Buffering, re-buffering…) So why are the major TV networks determined to stream everything on their websites? Deborah McAdams over at FierceIPTV makes a good point by saying that interference with over-the-air TV is exactly what led to the birth of [...]
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Ages ago I drafted a paper on DRM transcoding with the help of some of Motorola’s top experts on the subject. The basic premise of the paper is that transcoding is critical to breaking down the barriers that prevent consumers from moving content across devices and networks. Voila: seamless mobility. Of course, DRM barriers have [...]
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Earnings are definitely a touchy subject for a corporate blog (anything financial is), so I decided just to cut and paste the relevant info from the official earnings release. The Connected Home Solutions group hit some impressive milestones this quarter including nearly 5 million digital devices shipped and over a million DVRs. Connected Home Solutions [...]
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