The Trials and Tribulations of OCAP

Peter Grant has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal offering a short primer on OCAP. It’s very readable, so if you’re looking for an overview on the subject, check it out.
More importantly though, the WSJ story brought up a debate on OCAP with other industry friends. Some folks wonder whether [...]

HDTV to Triple by 2011

Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that the number of households with HDTV worldwide will jump from 48 million to 151 million by 2011. More importantly, however, the report’s author said that while uptake is strong, some customers are still disappointed with the HD content available on TV today.
I agree more HD video [...]

VOD is Bread and Butter

Three posts ago I started talking about how operators determine what services to roll out and when. They can analyze user behaviors to predict future trends. They can examine what services are strategically important given competitive offerings. And they can read their sales spreadsheets to see what’s popular with customers today.
Video on Demand certainly comes [...]