It’s a sign that the TV industry has changed when conversations from the Streaming Media East (SME) conference start sounding an awful lot like they could be transplanted directly from The Cable Show. Yesterday I sat in on an SME session entitled “Online Video and Set-Top Boxes”. With execs from Verizon, Motorola, TiVo and Showtime, [...]
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Verizon racked up another strong quarter according to the most recent earnings report. The telco has passed more than ten million homes with FiOS Internet service, and nearly that many with FiOS TV. Of those households with FiOS available, 26.8% subscribe to data services and 22.9% subscribe to video services. At the same time, Verizon [...]
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Even as tru2way held the spotlight at The Cable Show this year, EBIF was equally present, and perhaps even more top of mind for MSOs. If tru2way is the gold standard, then EBIF is the currency you can use to cash out quickly.
Part of the evidence on site included a number of EBIF applications demoed [...]
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While the two largest cable companies in the US won’t report numbers until February, the two largest telcos have stated their quarterly earnings, and the news for pay TV is decidedly positive. Verizon added 303,000 FiOS TV customers last quarter, and AT&T came in only a bit behind with 264,000 new U-verse subscribers. That’s more [...]
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Om Malik has a post up this morning quoting Infonetics research on the decline of cable modem sales in Q3. The numbers are startling, but it bears looking at a few other data points as well. Motorola, for example, saw modem shipments increase in Q3 to 3.1 million from 2.8 million in the second quarter. [...]
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A while back I journeyed up to Verizon HQ with Motorolan Evan Groat to talk about FiOS TV and the underlying Motorola hardware platform. We met up with Verizon’s Steven Haire and blogger/tweeter extraordinaire John Czwartacki, and, for several hours, not only talked, but shot video of some of the best [...]
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After spending the entire weekend offline, I decided to catch up on at least some of my reading before the week starts. Here are a few of the stories that caught my eye.
Verizon Delivers NFL Games in Multi-Camera-View
Comcast Updates on Fancast Strategy
Running Out of IPv4 Addresses
Ike Elliot on Bandwidth Leadership
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Since Verizon launched its Home Media DVR service (whole-home/multi-room DVR) I’ve wondered why the feature hasn’t been highlighted more prominently. Cable, teleco and satellite operators have few attractive options for differentiating their video services. The choices come down to:
Price, which is not an attractive option at all;
Content, which requires difficult negotiating for exclusive rights;
Video quality, [...]
In a post yesterday, Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM equated broadband to electricity and public education. Everyone should have access. That’s true, and we certainly have a lot of work to do in some rural areas, but there is good news. Access speeds are increasing in the US, and by a significant margin.
I remember [...]
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Light Reading hosted a one-day event yesterday on Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies. While I wasn’t able to make it out to LA for the conference, I’m hoping to hear back soon from a friend who was on the ground. In the meantime, Jeff Baumgartner writes that Mark Cuban’s interview with analyst Alan Breznick was as [...]
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