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04/18/2005
TV Critics Review VOD
For some of the country’s top TV critics, VOD’s a good, if not spectacular, option. If their cable operators had more programming (and if the service were easier to use), they might even start writing about it. We asked a few members of the Television Critics Association for their opinions on VOD programming based on […]
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04/08/2005
Deals
Now we know why YES Net’s Ray Hopkins and Time Warner Cable’s Melinda Witmer didn’t make the trip to San Francisco this week. They were holed up in their offices working out a carriage renewal that will see TW Cable launch YES’s HD feed. Neither side would comment on specifics of the deal, but sources […]
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04/07/2005
Schizophrenia: Programmers Bracing for Ad Model Challenge
Some of the top minds in media are concerned about disruptions to the revenue TV receives from advertising in light of devices that block ads. They’re also aware that the ubiquity of content could be a double-edged sword, particularly if consumers are able to bypass ads. TiVo users currently don’t skip many ads, "they’re true […]
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04/04/2005
By Popular Demand
Consumers are confused…on demand from the cable company or the box? It’s taken awhile, but DVRs and VOD can live together; if cable can just teach its subscribers the advantages of both. By Anthony Crupi For a while, DirecTV and TiVo were the Class Couple, a dreamy union of the starting quarterback and the head […]
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03/21/2005
Holy TiVo
Comcast’s Brian Roberts offered a bit more insight on the MSO’s deal with TiVo during an interview with Georgia Public TV Fri night. "TiVo is like a religion to some people," he said. "We have a digital video recorder that we can’t keep in stock. It allows you to pause and rewind live television. It […]
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03/16/2005
Everybody Wins: Comcast, TiVo Ink Marketing & Distribution Pact
Thank Tom Rogers. The former NBC Cable head was appointed to TiVo’s board as vice chmn in Oct to get a cable deal. He succeeded Tues with the PVR maker’s surprise pact with Comcast, a pact that probably saved TiVo’s bacon. Comcast and TiVo will develop a version of the well-branded PVR service that will […]