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02/18/2005
Working the Bugs Out
Comcast responded Thurs to a San Jose Mercury News report documenting subs’ dissatisfaction with their DVR service, saying that a software patch had been downloaded to customers early last Fri, which fixed the "freezing" problem. At the center of the complaints was a small batch of Motorola’s dual tuner "DCT 6412" DVRs, which represented "just […]
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02/01/2005
DVR Battles
EchoStar is launching a slate of advertisements for its DVR receivers today aimed primarily at TiVo. The print, TV, radio and billboard campaign features tags such as ‘Sure, TiVo is hot. TiVo is also expensive’ and ‘Like TiVo without the sticker shock.’ "TiVo has spent a lot of money on branding the DVR, but we […]
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01/24/2005
Sachs’ Legacy: Keeping the Regulators Out and the Programmers In
In July 1999, when Robert Sachs started as the president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, he had a simple mandate: Keep the regulators’ noses out of cable’s business. Sachs, who departs his post later this spring, has earned nearly unanimous accolades for achieving that goal. He has established one of the […]
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01/20/2005
Think About That For A Minute
commentary by Steve Effros TIVO P?R It’s been hard to miss all the press TiVo’s generated recently. Reminds me of a theory taught in some law schools: if you don’t have the facts on your side, yell louder! That seemed to be what folks at TiVo were doing at the start of the CES confab […]
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01/12/2005
Bay Watch
Less than 1 month after introducing the DVR in the Bay Area, Comcast reached the 10K customer mark. The market gained national attention last month when TiVo gave away more than 2K DVRs after learning that, due to demand, Bay Area customers were waiting 2-3 weeks for installation of Comcast’s DVR service. The MSO scored […]
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01/10/2005
B.S. from DC
NCTA says TiVo, Intel and Microsoft’s claim about CableCARDs is a load of bull. The trio claims the only way to reduce the retail price of CableCARD products is to require cable ops to rely on the cards. "What will impact the market is CE manufacturers reducing the prices of their HDTVs to something the […]