Wondering what to pay attention to in the world of broadband this week? Here are a few stories that have caught my eye.
Remote Storage DVR Gets a Green Light
Several pubs this week have covered the fact that cable operators now have the legal go-ahead to implement remote-storage DVR. This court saga began back in 2007 [...]
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Image courtesy of user txskeets on the U-talk forum
Tracy Swedlow (of itvt fame) has details this week on new features for the AT&T U-verse service. The upgrades are happening now, and limited feedback on various U-verse forums is already rolling in. Subscriber comments are mostly positive, with the exception of one complaint about an audio [...]
There was a lot of excitement and speculation surrounding the Motorola au Box recently, and as a result, I made an appointment to sit down with one of the product marketing managers, Matthias Trygg, for an update. Matthias handles set-tops based on the Motorola KreaTV platform, which are deployed primarily in Europe and Asia. In [...]
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Verizon racked up another strong quarter according to the most recent earnings report. The telco has passed more than ten million homes with FiOS Internet service, and nearly that many with FiOS TV. Of those households with FiOS available, 26.8% subscribe to data services and 22.9% subscribe to video services. At the same time, Verizon [...]
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While The Cable Show is now over for another year, I’ve collected plenty of related content for an ongoing series of posts. First up: This video shows a demo of the Motorola MOVR, which is an evolution of the MCUBE concept device I wrote about last September. (Just discovered Motorola has [...]
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I’ve been collecting content from panels, conversations, and demos, but it takes time to turn that raw information into coherent posts. So in the meantime, here’s a selection of photos from the Motorola booth on The Cable Show floor: 3D TV, new DOCSIS 3.0 retail modems, Internet apps on the set-top, and more.
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This just in: Motorola and Time Warner Cable are working together to deploy the cable industry’s first tru2way multiroom DVR solution. Motorola started developing this home networking technology literally years ago, but it’s the advent of tru2way that has made it appealing for cable operators to deploy. More to come on this subject…
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I’ve heard many people say that CES 2009 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The follow-on is that with no break-out products, the latest gadget extravaganza was rather dull. While I agree with the first premise, I heartily disagree with the second.
When I think back to CES 2008, netbooks were barely on the radar, only road [...]
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With a backlog of CES content to post, I thought I’d start with some new details and exclusive pics of the Motorola-created au Box launched by Japan’s KDDI last November. The idea behind the KDDI au service is to make content transferable between au set-tops and au mobile phones. The last information I had suggested [...]
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Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM has a post up today on the need for cable to focus on its core competency – video – in the wireless space.
If they can unify both the wired and wireless worlds in a way that makes it easy for consumers to manage, buy and watch content on a PC, [...]
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