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06/01/2006
Weekly Pix
Sling Media Launches Slingbox in UK If CTOs from major cable companies are willing to discuss the impact of the Slingbox during a panel discussion at NCTA, we’re willing to provide you with updates. Earlier this week, Sling Media said its Slingbox is now available for purchase across the United Kingdom. The Slingbox is a […]
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04/27/2006
Weekly Pix
Broadcom Supports Dolby Specs Broadcom said that its family of AVC/MPEG-2/VC-1 high-definition (HD) digital video decoder chips for satellite, cable and IP set-top boxes and media gateways now supports Dolby Digital Plus and Coding Technologies’ MPEG-4 aacPlus specifications. These advanced standards-based audio codec technologies reduce the bit rate requirements for delivering audio in high-definition DVD […]
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04/10/2006
My Back Page: The Changing Faces of Cable…
…aren’t just on the show floor at the National Show in Atlanta. The real changing face has been and is at the subscriber level: First, when the industry didn’t quite take seriously enough the advent of direct broadcast satellite. We lost a lot of customers because of that ostrich-like response to initial competition. But cable […]
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03/30/2006
Proxy Server
DSG Defined Shameless Plug Part II: Communications Technology and Texas Instruments are hosting a breakfast (go to www.ct-magazine.com for more details) at the upcoming NCTA show on the DOCSIS Set-top Gateway protocol, IPTV and Interactive TV. To learn more about DSG, check out this archived story by CT columnist Ron Hranac at http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/0503/0503_broadband.html. Time Warner […]
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02/06/2006
Technology: Have You Talked to a CE Manufacturer Lately?
Take a moment to consider the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month. Microsoft, Intel, Yahoo, Google and, oh yeah…Sony. That’s right, just one of the five keynotes at the world’s largest consumer electronics show came from a company whose core business is actually making consumer electronics. And what did Sony […]
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01/05/2006
The Small Things
There’s nothing small about where I’ll be this week. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas expects over 130,000 people to roam through 2500 exhibits on 1.6 million square feet of convention floor. A lot of stuff to see, a lot of people to talk to, and, as usual, a lot of hype. We’ll […]