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 [...]
New AT&T U-Verse Features
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Web Video Isn’t All On-Demand
Posted on June 15, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Online video content frequently gets lumped together as one big on-demand offering. After all, that is the value the Web brings. You go out and search for the content you want, and the Internet serves it up. However, there’s an interesting increase in “appointment TV” on the Web as well. For most big, live events, [...]
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The Future of the Remote Control
Posted on May 14, 2009 by Mari Silbey
At CES this year Motorola announced a new rechargeable IPTV remote control complete with “find” feature, USB port, and digital clock. Now there’s word that Motorola is tinkering further with the gadget to add Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. Todd Spangler at Multichannel News got the scoop, including this quote from product manager Mostafa Reza:
If [...]
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A Closer Look at Motorola IPTV Outside the US
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Mari Silbey
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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Cable IP Video: To Bypass or Not to Bypass
Posted on May 4, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Jeff Baumgartner takes up the issue today of how cable operators are looking at IP video delivery. Not how they’re dealing with Web video from a business perspective, but literally how they transport bits to the home. Currently, all cable IP traffic routes through a cable modem termination system (CMTS), but several folks are now [...]
Filed under: Bandwidth, Cable, DOCSIS 3.0, IP, IPTV, Internet, Networks, Video | 2 Comments »
IPTV Services Concentrated In US, France, and China
Posted on March 10, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Bob Larribeau over at the TelecomView analyst firm has posted some new numbers on global IPTV activity. Including Verizon, which uses a hybrid QAM/IP network architecture, Larribeau lists five IPTV providers worldwide with one million subscribers or more. They include:
Free in France
Verizon
China Telecom
France Telecom
AT&T
Larribeau also estimates that there are 20 million IPTV subscribers globally. Given [...]
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Motorola Signs IPTV Deal in the Caribbean
Posted on February 9, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Motorola has already cemented its leadership role in IPTV as far as set-tops are concerned, but the company has a software play too. Today Motorola announced a deal with CODETEL in the Caribbean (a subsidiary of America Movil) to provide its CCE platform for managing IPTV content and services.
As briefly as I can describe it, [...]
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Internet on the TV – What’s Changed Since CES 2008
Posted on January 12, 2009 by Mari Silbey
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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Exclusive Pics of the Motorola au Box from CES
Posted on January 11, 2009 by Mari Silbey
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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New Motorola Remote Control!
Posted on January 6, 2009 by Mari Silbey
I don’t get to write very often about a Motorola product that falls squarely into the gadget category, so today’s news is both cool and rare. Motorola has announced a new remote control and charging station for the VIP series of IPTV set-tops. The MotoCharger 1000 includes a “find” feature where a switch on the [...]
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