Continuing on yesterday’s theme, here are some of my favorite posts from the second half of 2010. July: New Multi-Room DVR: Pause Live TV, Record Anywhere – covering a multi-room DVR deployment with Cincinnati Bell including features not available in larger operator environments August: VOD Economics: Are We There Yet? – on collapsing release windows and [...]
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If you read CableLabs’ most recent modem certification report (and really, why wouldn’t you?) you’ll notice that more and more of the hardware certified is IPv6-compliant. In fact, in the last two cert waves, all of the modems certified are listed as supporting the newer protocol. Depending on which reports you read, we’re on a [...]
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There’s lots of TV news making the rounds today, and interestingly, two of the three headlines below include Netflix. Is it any wonder cable companies are hot on OTT video for 2011? Cable Industry Grooms Its Netflix Killer: Vutopia By, Andrew Wallenstein — paidContent, Dec 7, 2010 6:30 PM ET It’s trendy nowadays to challenge [...]
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If 2010 was the year for kick-starting TV Everywhere initiatives, 2011 may be the year cable really gets into an OTT frame of mind. First there’s the mad rush to integrate TV services with mobile applications. Comcast’s Xfinity TV app is getting a major promotional blast, and the momentum has pushed CableLabs to create its [...]
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The subject of cable gateways and the FCC’s AllVid proposal have taken up a lot of virtual ink here this year, so as we look to wind things up for 2010, I thought I’d recap how the concept of networking IP devices in cable homes has evolved since 2009. The Router Plus Wireless Access Point Believe [...]
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