One of the many dichotomies discussed at this years’ Connected Home Summit in London ran something along the lines of ‘why must consumers undergo a negative experience before they can experience a positive one?’ Indeed, all too often, consumers have to go through the pain of setting up a complex pieceof new kit before they [...]
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From somewhere in the vast Motorola video archive, a friend and colleague forwarded me this online video tutorial for setting up your Digital Transport Adapter. (Sometimes called a Digital Terminal Adapter) It’s a bit on the cheesy side, but if you’ve still got analog TVs in a digital cable system, this video offers a quick guide [...]
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This is one of the best Motorola videos I’ve seen in a while. The four-minute short embedded above details one small, rural pay-TV provider’s conversion to an all-digital system. TriCounty Telecom was locked at 60 analog channels it could deliver to subscribers on its 400 MHz plant. (And I thought 550 MHz was low!) By [...]
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No doubt we’ll see a flood of year-end and decade-end stories through the rest of this week, but already I have three wrap-up stories that top my list. Covering TV and technology, here are excerpts from three articles by Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, John Merli writing for TV Technology, and Robert Bianco of USA [...]
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No matter how you get your TV signals, there are always ways to tweak the experience. Ten years ago I lived in a cabin in rural North Carolina where tweaking usually meant standing out on the porch to adjust the antenna on the low tin roof. For the most part, tweaking has grown more sophisticated, [...]
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