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11/22/2011
Boxee Encourages Cord-Cutting; Adds Broadcast TV, Sling
Boxee is working on a new add-on to the Boxee Box that will come out in January. It is a live TV dongle that lets customers connect an antenna to their Boxee Box to watch channels like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in HD with no monthly fee. Customers can pre-order the live TV stick […]
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11/22/2011
Comcast Offers Free Wireless Gateways
Comcast is so keen on being involved with its subscribers’ connected homes it is offering free gateways. The Xfinity Wireless Gateway includes a wireless router to help power all the Wi-Fi-enabled devices within a home. The free gateway offering is timed with the holiday season in which many people buy new electronic devices. Tony Werner, […]
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11/21/2011
Evolution Digital Works with TiVo on Whole Home Solution
Evolution Digital demonstrated a couple of new technologies at last week’s Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta. The company showed its Liberty HD universal digital transport adapter (uDTA) wall plate device. Liberty is a HD uDTA designed in a semi-permanent installation form factor that affixes to the wall in place of standard F81 coax wall plates. It […]
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11/21/2011
Amdocs Survey Highlights Churn
A survey conducted by Informa Telecoms and Media for Amdocs found that 66 percent of operators believe customers are less loyal today than they were two years ago, and 70 percent of service providers cite customer retention and loyalty as the critical factor for driving growth. Due to market saturation and increasing competition, 82 percent of […]
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11/21/2011
RCN Centralizes VOD Content Processing
Digital cable TV operator RCN has deployed SeaChange’s AssetFlow content workflow management software to streamline video-on-demand (VOD) content and metadata processing operations in its five markets. With AssetFlow, RCN has created a single centralized content processing operation to fully support the VOD libraries in Boston, Chicago, New York City, Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia, Pa., and […]
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11/21/2011
BendBroadband Launches EBIF Platform
BendBroadband will be the first to deploy FourthWall Media’s EBIF platform for Motorola set-top boxes. BendBroadband will launch the platform integrated with Rovi i-Guide, which will enable the integration of interactive TV services. Operators can license the integrated solution from Rovi. FourthWall is a leading EBIF platform supplier for Cisco set-top boxes. Currently, the Cisco […]