All of the major TV operators in the US are competing seriously on the quantity and quality of their HD programming. However, among the smaller guys, the HD line-ups are often significantly sparser. To help change that, Comcast Media Center (CMC), Motorola, and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) launched an update to the HITS [...]
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It’s pretty, it’s shiny, it’s red, and it does MPEG-4 rate shaping.
The new Motorola “headend 2.0″ solution launched at the ANGA Cable Show this week plugs some serious holes in the European cable infrastructure market, and it does so after a period of years when Motorola’s involvement in the space has been limited. For one [...]
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Last month I talked about 1080p 60 encoding in reference to producing 3D TV. Now it turns out Motorola is demonstrating the technology at the NAB show. Product marketing director David Hopkins is in charge of showing off the new Motorola SE-6000 MPEG-4 encoder and explaining the benefits of the 1080p 60 format. By itself, [...]
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Last year at the NAB Show, Motorola announced support for Active Format Description (AFD) in its MPEG encoding products. So it seems appropriate that this year around NAB time I have an on-site video to post showing AFD at work. In the video above, Motorola exec Marty Stein describes how AFD [...]
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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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C-SPAN was created by the cable industry to cover Washington and national politics, so what better forum than The Cable Show, hosted in the nation’s capitol, to announce an upgrade to all-digital broadcasting?
Motorola has the news out today that C-SPAN will be using Motorola encoders and satellite receivers to transition from analog services to digital. [...]
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The quest to deliver more HD content impacts everything along the video delivery chain. Operators are constantly looking for ways to tweak the system, from switching channels, to reclaiming bandwidth from analog channels, to splitting fiber nodes and driving fiber deeper into the network. However, one of the most efficient ways to increase and improve [...]
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Here’s something worth seeing in person. At The Cable Show next week Motorola will be showing off a 3D TV demo using both a TV display and a Motorola set-top currently on the market. While 3D content delivery isn’t ready for prime time (yet), the consumer hardware to receive and display 3D pictures is already [...]
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Image courtesy of Zatz Not Funny
Not long ago it was a novelty just watching TV on the PC, and yet we’ve quickly moved from grainy, standard-def YouTube videos to high-def, premium content online. The latest example? CBSSports.com is debuting online HD coverage of March Madness this year with a new Silverlight player. You don’t have [...]
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There’s been a whole lot of HDTV activity this year, and with only 16 days left in 2008, I think it’s a good time to take a look back.
First, a new report out by Nielsen says that 23.3 percent of US households now own an HDTV. That’s more than double the number of HD households [...]
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