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01/08/2007
CES 2007: Video A Go-Go
The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show got rolling Sunday with a flurry of announcements impacting the cable industry. This CES — which set the stage by announcing that consumer electronics revenue will surpass $155 billion this year — marks the year of mobile video. See the spate of announcements below regarding an increasing variety of means […]
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01/04/2007
Predictions '07: Execs Offer Best Guesses For the Year Ahead
Cable executive prophecies for the coming year run the gamut, from convergence to HD to telephony. Find out what some industry players see on the horizon for 2007
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12/29/2006
Predictions '07: Execs Offer Best Guesses For the Year Ahead
Cfax readers’ prophecies for the coming year run the gamut, from convergence to HD to telephony. Here’s a sampling of what some industry players see on the horizon for ’07, both the challenges and the opportunities: NBCU TV Networks distribution pres Bridget Baker: "Cable’s ’07 challenges are ‘good problems to have.’ Cable’s high-speed connections to […]
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12/01/2006
TiVo & Cable
Don’t look for any public trials this year of TiVo and Comcast’s heavily anticipated offering. The MSO says it expects some market trials in the first half of ’07. On TiVo’s earnings call Wed, Tom Rogers was upbeat about the partnership and said TiVo plans to showcase the product at CES in Jan. "The excitement […]
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11/16/2006
Discovery Taps Zaslav for Top Spot
Discovery Communications Inc. named NBC Universal’s David Zaslav as the successor to Judith McHale, who steps down as DCI’s president and CEO on Dec. 1. Zaslav, currently president of NBC Universal Cable and Domestic TV and New Media Distribution, assumes his new position in January. Like McHale, he started in television as a lawyer and […]
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11/14/2006
Technology
Cable fulfilled its commitment to the FCC to make multistream CableCARDs available for retail plug & play devices. The cards allow multiple digital video streams (even on 1-way devices), meaning a sub using one can view 1 cable channel while recording another. CableLabs, with support from TiVo, Motorola, Digeo, Solekai, Digital Keystone and ViXS, is […]