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03/01/2003
Gaming by Cable: Is Your system ready to Play?
THERE'S DEFINITELY MONEY TO BE MADE IN INTERACTIVE GAMING VIA CABLE. GETTING TO THAT POINT, HOWEVER, MEANS CLEARING TECHNOLOGICAL HURDLES THAT ARE AS MUCH IN THE SET-TOP AS THEY ARE IN THE NETWORK.
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03/01/2003
Middleware: between THEORY and PRACTICE
A middleware standard—the goal of CableLabs’ OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP)—could be emerging from theory into practice. "I don’t think we’ll see any massive deployment," Mike Hayashi, Time Warner Cable senior vice president for subscriber technologies and advanced engineering, says. "But I think this is the year we will start to see OCAP showing up." Hayashi […]
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03/01/2003
HDTV RISING: Reception and Processing Lessons-Learned
Time Warner in Raleigh, N.C., and Cox in Las Vegas learned that high-definition TV demands extra care in signal reception and processing. With the quantity of programming on the rise and the price of display monitors in decline, the stars are aligning over high-definition television (HDTV). Are cable engineers ready to play their role in […]
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02/24/2003
CAM SYS ASSISTS IN CATV AD MANAGEMENT
BY ANDREA FIGLER Of the many hats a local cable operator has to wear in the course of a broadcast day, none gets more use than that of the traffic cop. But as the demands on traffic systems increase, an administrator without the proper software package in place can do little more than blow his […]
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02/24/2003
GAME SHOW PROMOTION GRADUATES
MIKE REYNOLDS Bank of America is going to school with Game Show Network’s biggest promotion to date. B of A’s student banking group, a first time advertiser on Game Show, is the key sponsor of the network’s Get Schooled Tour, which begins March 15. It will give away $140,000 toward the college education of winners […]
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02/24/2003
TO HD OR…NOT TO HD?
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN When you prosper as Starz CEO John Sie has, your opinion does carry weight. Sie claims that the industry is making a major mistake by supporting current HD standards. He may be right. However, there could be another more pragmatic reason why Sie is opposing high-resolution content: cost. Starz Encore’s gain […]