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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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11/27/2006
DCT Redux: Moto Moving Forward With Industry's Set-Top Transition
Motorola is taking orders for the DCT-700 in the US after Nov 15—there’s just no guarantee operators will be able to get them (Cfax, 11/21). The vendor is preparing for an FCC deadline of July 1 that will prevent US operators from deploying the 700 and other boxes that don’t contain a CableCARD or some […]
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11/21/2006
The Wait: Operator Says Motorola Not Taking DCT-700 Orders, RCN Files Waiver Request
The FCC’s inaction on cable’s waiver requests for the July 1, 2007 set-top integration ban appears to be taking a toll. BendBroadband has told the FCC that Motorola stopped accepting orders for the DCT-700 last Thurs, citing the July 1 ban that requires cable ops to only deploy boxes with a CableCARD. A Moto spokesman […]
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11/15/2006
Countdown to Kickoff: NFL Net Suiting Up With or Without Cable
NFL Net will kick off live game coverage next Thurs, and pres/CEO Steve Bornstein insists he’s happy with the net’s current reach even though some big players still refuse to suit up. "I don’t want to sound facetious, but we are pleased where we are in distribution," said Bornstein during a Tues conference call. Still […]
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11/10/2006
Broadband Boomers: MTVN Launching Older-Skewing Multiplatform Nets
Remember John Sykes’ Baby Boomers project? It appears to finally have gotten the go-ahead, with newly installed Viacom pres/CEO Phillipe Dauman revealing during Thurs’ earnings call that MTV Networks will announce the launch of multiplatform networks targeted at “specific adult demos” in the next few weeks. “One of our most creative executives has been working […]
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11/07/2006
Ziddio Video: Comcast Launches Beta User Video Website
Back in Aug, Cfax reported that Comcast was considering launching a video Website called Ziddio.com (Cfax, 8/28), and this week the MSO filled in the blanks. On Mon, a beta version of Ziddio.com went live, with Comcast expected to launch it for real by early Dec. While the user-generated video site is sure to draw […]