Remember those dire predictions over the summer from folks saying we wouldn’t see a national roll-out of TV Everywhere until 2012 or 2014? Well, time for the experts to eat their hats. Several people are reporting on Twitter that Comcast just announced at the NewTeeVee Live conference that it will launch TV Everywhere for everyone [...]
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Although digital terminal adapters (DTAs) have been out and about for more than a year, several manufacturers, including Motorola, have been lobbying to get new product versions approved for use by the FCC. The purpose of a DTA is to make it easier for operators to make the transition to all-digital broadcasting. For consumer holdouts, [...]
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Jeff Baumgartner has a nice write-up today on The Independent Show analyzing how smaller cable companies are transitioning to all-digital broadcasts. Amazingly, he reports that many of these providers are still operating on 550 MHz of plant capacity. Compared to the larger cable companies, that doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for HD content [...]
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One of my questions leading up to the broadcast digital TV transition was how many OTA TV watchers would make the jump to cable, telco, or satellite service. According to an article by Todd Spangler, the answer is right around 653,000. Analyst Marci Ryvicker has estimates on how that number breaks down across categories too. [...]
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The broadcast transition to digital television that finally takes place today in the US has some interesting incidental implications. If you’ve gotten through the transition itself okay, there are a few things to watch for in the aftermath. First is the dumping of old secondary TVs that have taken up space in kitchens and basements [...]
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