Apparently sightings started last week, but I just picked up on the news that AT&T is now rolling out a second HD stream to U-verse homes. Sounds like a good precursor to AT&T’s whole-home DVR service (on Motorola set-tops) promised for this year, yes?
From the U-verse Users forum:
It appears that St. Louis will be [...]
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Motorola co-hosted a telebriefing yesterday with Patti Reali from Gartner and Ruchir Rodrigues from Verizon. There were a number of good stats thrown out, and you can sort through some of them in the Motorola press release or listen to the audio replay of the event. However, the one that gave me pause was a [...]
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Both US mobile broadband usage and TV viewing on the Internet have soared. In two entirely different articles today I read that:
Mobile broadband usage has gone up 154% in a year, and
NBC.com measured more than half a billion video streams on the Web in virtually the same time span.
This begs the [...]
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Favorite links from a holiday weekend of reading:
Broadband Reports - $2 billion from Intel may bring national WiMAX network
Light Reading - Comcast aiming to implement SDV in 15% of network this year
EngadgetHD - Latest research confirms it – DVRs increase TV consumption
Ars Technica - Retail sales staff don’t know much about the DTV transition
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Advertisers got their money’s worth this year with the most watched Super Bowl ever. According to Nielsen, the Super Bowl averaged 97.5 million viewers throughout the game. Only the final episode of MASH beats that number in American television history.
However, the situation is more complicated than the Nielsen ratings suggest. [...]
Last week Verizon announced it has topped one million customers for its FiOS TV service. The announcement hit the wires a mere seven months after the operator reached the same milestone for its high-speed Internet offering.
As far as TV goes, Verizon’s major differentiator comes from the fact that it’s building out fiber to [...]
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It’s got to be rare that a financial analyst is proud to predict an event that only has a 2% chance of occurring, but my friend and occasional sounding board Arnie Berman is quite pleased to do just that. His firm Cowen and Company published a report earlier this month titled Top 10 Potential [...]
I made it back from CES and am recovering well. However, I have a backlog of content, so expect to see more CES-related posts for a while. Here are some photos of the Mobile TV DH01 announced last week. From top to bottom they are the main menu, a side view (the [...]
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There’s more video and commentary to come, but to wrap up today I thought I’d plug in a few photos from the Motorola booth for anyone who’s not at this gargantuan show we call CES.
This is a photo of the cordless IP phone that goes with the SBV5422 announced last week. See screenshots further [...]
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L to R: Fred Wright (Motorola) Geoff Roman (Motorola) Craig Cuttner (HBO) John Burke (Motorola)
I promised to write more on the Motorola set-top announcement with BT, and after just sitting through a panel session with several Motorola executives and Dan Marks, the CEO of BT Vision, I feel more than equipped to provide additional context. [...]
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