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| 03.02.2010 |
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3DTV... It's Coming—But How?
3DTV is on an inevitable track toward some form of mass adoption. But how big will it get and how fast? It may come down to how the industry tackles several hurdles, as well as consumer acceptance. In the meantime, secure those seatbelts and get ready for a wild ride....
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Google's Fiber Project - All About Mindshare
Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting argues that Google's broadband "experiment" is more focused on mindshare than market share—with the goal of re-shaping perceptions and ultimately the way existing broadband networks are used....
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| 02.23.2010 |
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It Pays to Invest in Employees
CTHRA Exec Director Pamela Williams walks us through CTHRA's latest Human Capital Metrics Survey, which found that cable employees often represent a much higher return on investment than other industries....
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| 02.16.2010 |
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The Mobile Content Decade
In the 2010s, our mobile society will go into hyperdrive. Mobile video is no longer a luxury. It's fast becoming a utility—both in terms of user consumption and creation. Are you ready?...
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| 02.16.2010 |
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Paying Up
A new Nielsen global survey suggests that consumers are willing to pay for content—at least sometimes. The good news for cable is that professionally produced video (like movies and TV shows) is among the content for which consumers are most willing to pay....
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| 02.09.2010 |
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It's Always Sunny in Denver
As those of us on the East Coast flirt with apocalyptic doom as snow covers our cars, houses and loved ones, we turn to Denver where CableLabs' Winter Conference brings us moody search engines, EBIF glory and other fun stuff....
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| 02.02.2010 |
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Social Media - What Can Cable Do?
Social networking: Who is doing it right? How can the cable industry best get in the game? Karen Ramspacher, 2010 CTAM Research + Insights Conference co-chair, caught up with Misiek Piskorski, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to learn how his research has progressed to helping companies create successful social strategies....
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Bullpen: Leveraging Broadband Forum Standards
The cable community has come to rely upon CableLabs-based specifications. In many cases, CableLabs specifies the operation of customer devices, including the headend-based provisioning of these devices. Spanning all edges of the cable network, this model has...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Digital Touch Points
Separable security has won no popularity contests, but the experiment has generated changes, such as the introduction of DVB-CSA. Separable security: it remains a contentious battlefield, littered with casualties, competing claims and capital expenditures. In...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Comcast Update: What is a CMAP?
Among several trends impacting the access architecture over the past few years has been an increase in the number of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) channels used for narrowcast services. Most MSOs are deploying more and more unicast QAM channels to...
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| 01.29.2010 |
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Experimenting with Social Media
As cable industry marketers increasingly look to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, brand marketers attending the recent CMO Leadership Forum in NYC traded advice and war stories about how to use these vital tools—and interestingly enough, how not to use them....
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| 01.12.2010 |
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The Avatar Factor
The battle over Comcast's bandwidth management is heating up in federal court and could determine the future of the Internet. But are consumers in this epic story under threat or simply the precious metal that everyone wants to mine?...
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| 01.05.2010 |
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Hari Carriage
The end of the year always brings retrans and carriage negotiation strife. But with the fights spewing talking points as old as the industry itself, could these hard-nosed negotiating tactics lead to blowback from consumers—and even from Washington?...
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| 01.01.2010 |
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More Momentum for Mobility
Operators are angling for customers, coping with traffic and looking at alternative business models. Mobile advertising waits in the wings...
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| 01.01.2010 |
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Communications Technology: CT Reports: Execs Tout Ethernet, Fiber Growth
To subscribe to CT's Reports, visit our Web site at www.cable360.net/subscribe/ Cable operators are poised to grab a much bigger share of the Ethernet market from AT&T, Verizon and other telecom...
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| 01.01.2010 |
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Communications Technology: Smart Home: Echostar Touts Sling to Cable
EchoStar is trying to convince cable operators to buy Sling technology-enabled set-top boxes. The Sling-loaded set-tops can deliver cable TV content to other devices, such as laptops and mobile phones...
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| 12.22.2009 |
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Review - Comcast's Fancast Xfinity TV Beta
CableFAX Exec Editor Michael Grebb reviews Comcast's answer to authentication, its "Xfinity"-branded service through Fancast. Bottom line: It's not perfect by any stretch (thus, the "beta" designation), but Comcast does a lot of things right in its first iteration of TV Everywhere....
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| 12.15.2009 |
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Deal or No Deal?
The Comcast-NBCU deal continues to fuel speculation that other distribution and content companies will do similar deals to compete. But dig a little deeper, and it seems unlikely that other such deals will materialize any time soon....
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| 12.11.2009 |
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CableFAX: 13. Ready for Round Two: Rocco Commisso
Rocco Commisso Title: Chairman/CEO, Mediacom Age: 59 Education: BS, MBA, Columbia University Why Him? Commisso led Mediacom to one of its best performances last year, earning CableFAX: The Magazine’s ’09 top MSO award. This year, Mediacom’s on track for...
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| 12.11.2009 |
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CableFAX: 14. Mr. President? Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes Title: President, Fox News Channel Age: 69 Education: BA, U of OH Why Him? In late October, just as the White House was inexplicably attacking Fox News, boosting buzz if not ratings for the fair and balanced network, word was that friends were...
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