Here’s a quick update from Comcast Voices, the Comcast blog, on the upcoming On Demand Online trial. Apparently the MSO has added the Starz network to its roster of on-demand content that will be made available on Fancast and Comcast.net. The premium movie channel will serve up 300 movies online, though all in standard-def to [...]
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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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A couple of articles caught my eye today that give a snapshot of online video watching in the here and now. Last summer Dan Rayburn estimated that fewer than three million consumers stream online video to their TVs using a hardware solution like the Xbox or Roku box. Today he says that number has hardly [...]
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It’s pretty, it’s shiny, it’s red, and it does MPEG-4 rate shaping.
The new Motorola “headend 2.0″ solution launched at the ANGA Cable Show this week plugs some serious holes in the European cable infrastructure market, and it does so after a period of years when Motorola’s involvement in the space has been limited. For one [...]
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Here’s a piece of news a bit outside the norm for this blog. BT, the parent group for British Telecom, is trialing Motorola software for the upcoming Paralympic World Cup that will deliver highlight videos and other event content to consumer mobile handsets. It’s a services and software engagement, but there is a common thread [...]
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One of the best sessions I attended at Streaming Media East this week was on scaling Web video delivery. Dan Rayburn moderated, and participating panelists included execs from Move Networks, Level 3, CBSSports.com, and MLB.com. Two things struck me. First, these guys have done incredible things online, including building large audiences, rapidly improving video quality [...]
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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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Here’s an interesting little tidbit. While trolling through Comcast’s VOD guide, I clicked on a category I’ve never noticed before called “The Cutting Edge”. That led me to a sub-menu with Sci-Fi, gaming, and anime choices, as well as a button labeled “Fancast”. Since Fancast is Comcast’s online portal for video, I was curious why [...]
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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 [...]
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In recognition of the need to bridge the gap to the Internet, both Comcast and Time Warner Cable have now said they will make select programming available online to TV subscribers in the second half of this year. Comcast’s Karin Gilford promised as much in a recent interview with NewTeeVee about the upcoming “On Demand [...]
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