Demos Abound at CableLabs Winter Conference CableLabs will be hosting its winter conference next week in Colorado Springs at The Broadmoor. Some of the top cable execs will be on hand for the conference, as well as various vendor suitors. Some of the demonstrations slated for the event include ICTV‘s mosaic solution that is designed to enable cable system operators, programmers and integrators to deploy interactive multichannel mosaics, which can be aligned to reflect individual subscribers’ viewing preferences. In addition to providing live video from, and navigation through, multiple channels simultaneously, the ICTV technology will enable personal mosaics to be assembled by subscriber, operator or programmer choice, or via system response to subscriber viewing habits, all on any digital set-top box. Tropic Networks will demonstrate its open architecture approach to optical networking, enabling cable operators to deliver voice, video and high-speed data services over a single integrated network. The demonstration will highlight Tropic’s wavelength tracking technology and managed alien wavelength transport. Broadbus will demo the ability to time-shift live TV into a traditional VOD environment. BigBand‘s switched unicast technology will be on display at the Broadmoor, and the demo will also highlight the benefits of BigBand’s M-CMTS platforms that use edge QAM devices. VCom Decoder Gets Adelphia, Cox Approval Earlier this week, VCom announced that after successful field testing, its edge decoder was approved by Adelphia Communications and Cox Communications. VCom’s edge decoder performs MPEG decoding, analog modulation and upconversion for up to 24 NTSC/PAL channels in a 1-RU chassis. It is also capable of supporting baseband and RF outputs as well as over-the-air reference options in the same chassis. Widevine  Enters HD-DVD Copy Protection Market Widevine Technologies, a provider of comprehensive downloadable content protection and digital forensics for video operators, announced it will provide digital copy protection for high definition DVD-based content delivery formats Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Widevine Cypher for high-definition DVD players is expected to protect devices available at retail in summer 2006 and extend Widevine’s PC content protection to include Blu-ray and HD-DVD devices that run on Microsoft‘s new Vista operating system, available later in the year.

The Daily

Subscribe
Tuesday–February 23

TPG-DirecTV Deal Close?

TPG’s rumored purchase of a minority stake in DirecTV from AT&T could be announced as soon as this week, CNBC reported Tuesday.

Read the Full Issue
The Skinny is delivered on Tuesday and focuses on the cable profession. You'll stay in the know on the headlines, topics and special issues you value most. Sign Up

Jobs

Seeking an INDUSTRY JOB? VIEW JOBS

Hiring? In conjunction with our sister brand, Cynopsis, we are offering hiring managers a deep pool of media-savvy, skilled candidates at a range of experience levels and sectors, The result will be an even more robust industry job board, to help both employers and job seekers.

Contact John@cynopsis.com for more information.