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06/16/2003
Alas, There Remain Cynics
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Let’s just get this out of the way and be done with it: This year’s NCTA confab was, to put it charitably, a sleepy affair. The booth exhibits were smaller than in years past, the term “floor traffic” demands to be qualified by ironic finger quotes and the show’s lone buzz moment […]
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06/02/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Comcast brought HDTV to Los Angeles last week. The launch was “timed so our customers will be able to watch the NBA finals with picture resolution that is up to six times sharper than analog,” says Debi Picciolo, regional SVP for Comcast Southern California. The service offers HBO, Showtime and local ABC, […]
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06/01/2003
Editor's Letter: HDTV-a-Go-Go
I joined this magazine in 1989, and one of the first covers I remember pictured several high-definition TV (HDTV) sets floating dreamily in a utopian blue sky. HD had snared broadband engineers’ attention, but regulatory roadblocks, technical riddles, extravagant equipment costs and the lack of programming meant that real rollouts were years away. Not long […]
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06/01/2003
MARCIE ANDERSON 2003 Women in Technology Winner
Marcie Anderson, vice president of business development at Cox Communications, is the 2003 Women in Technology award winner. She receives the honor in recognition of her commitment to innovative broadband services including high-speed Internet, high-definition TV and digital video recorders. Marcie Anderson is truly a self-made woman. She began her technical career in 1991 as […]
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05/01/2003
Insight Operator of the Year
Remember the New Economy? And its ideal of a flexible, flat, networked, customer-focused and fast company? Meet Insight Communications and its technical team, Communications Technology's Operator of the Year '03.
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05/01/2003
How to Plan and Manage a Rollout
As services like HDTV clamor for ever-scarcer bandwidth, much attention is being directed toward switched broadcast services.