Two years ago I started writing this blog in the hope that someone, anyone really, would read it. Motorola generously funded the effort even though corporate blogging was hardly a common practice. We plodded along for a while, and slowly readership grew. Then the feedback started to roll in. I began having increasingly interesting conversations [...]
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In an ongoing series of executive interviews to wrap up the year, I spoke recently with Motorola’s John Burke on some of the most important milestones for the video industry in 2008 and his predictions for 2009. Here are some of the highlights in written form along with audio sound bytes and a 60-second bonus [...]
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Automated and remote management of broadband CPE has been a big theme for this year, and with the economy looking the way it does for 2009, I imagine it will be popular over the next twelve months as well. In short, operators are increasingly interested in CPE that minimizes the need for support techs to [...]
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Motorola has conducted the industry’s first over-the-air LTE data sessions in the 700MHz spectrum. While actual LTE deployments are a ways out, successful trials suggest the 4G technology is progressing nicely. Using a van to test the connection in a mobile environment, Motorola engineers trialed streaming video and other “high data rate applications” over an [...]
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Way more than an MPEG-4 video, this clip covers the emergence of content delivery across multiple platforms, has Cox talking about 1 GHz set-tops, and lands on Emmy-winning Motorolan Ajay Luthra talking about the expansion of bit rate ranges. My favorite video by far from this month’s user conference.
Plus, [...]
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Two interesting findings out of the UK today. First, Claude London of the BBC noted at the Streaming Media Europe conference that a noticeable portion of BBC viewers are using the online version of a show as a preview to watching content on their televisions:
“We’re finding that those who watch the streams will often convert [...]
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Inevitably at trade shows I pile up notes and photos of things I’d like to cover, and yet I never get around to posting on everything. With that in mind, here are a few of the items that slipped through the cracks at The Cable Show.
Motorola Digital Transport Adapter
This puppy got a lot of [...]
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Live may be a bit of a misnomer since this is a recorded podcast, but the conversation here is with Motorola’s Floyd Wagoner, who was talking by phone yesterday from the ANGA cable show in Germany. Floyd discusses the surprising things he noticed at the US Cable Show last week – including the heavy interest [...]
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Apparently sightings started last week, but I just picked up on the news that AT&T is now rolling out a second HD stream to U-verse homes. Sounds like a good precursor to AT&T’s whole-home DVR service (on Motorola set-tops) promised for this year, yes?
From the U-verse Users forum:
It appears that St. Louis will be [...]
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I’m proud to say I am not one of those people who sit up close to the TV screen tracking pixels, or who put displays side by side to compare true black. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not aware of the changes happening in video delivery, or what’s making those changes occur. Here’s a [...]
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