If you’ve followed the TV tech industry at all, you know the difficulties associated with getting interactive television apps to market. Technologists and marketers have held out the promise of iTV for years with little to show for it. But slowly that’s changing. Two years ago CableLabs and Comcast put tru2way (aka OCAP) front and [...]
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Comcast made TV Everywhere official earlier this week with the launch of its Fancast Xfinity service. Not quite in time for Hanukkah, the online on-demand offering rolled out nationwide with content from AMC, A&E, CBS, HBO, and many others. If you subscribe to both Comcast high-speed Internet and digital cable, you can access on-demand television [...]
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Motorola ran its first major public demonstration of WiMAX more than two years ago on a boat at WiMAX World in Chicago. The windy city is Motorola’s hometown, and since the fabled boat ride there in 2007, many of us have been anxiously awaiting an official 4G service launch. That wait has now ended. Motorola [...]
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After the TV Everywhere breakfast panel in New York earlier this month, I was surprised at the level of pessimism from reporters about the near future of online TV from cable and telco operators. Steve Donahue of Contentinople said: “A lack of standards and a legal debate may keep the cable industry’s ‘TV Everywhere’ efforts [...]
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An online forum thread on the Broadband Reports site confirms that Motorola DCX set-tops are now officially live in the field. I’ve heard rumblings about deployments since CES in January, but this is the first proof I’ve seen of the MPEG-4 set-tops making their way into consumer homes. Two users report having the DCX boxes, [...]
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