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01/24/2005
Sachs’ Legacy: Keeping the Regulators Out and the Programmers In
In July 1999, when Robert Sachs started as the president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, he had a simple mandate: Keep the regulators’ noses out of cable’s business. Sachs, who departs his post later this spring, has earned nearly unanimous accolades for achieving that goal. He has established one of the […]
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01/20/2005
Think About That For A Minute
commentary by Steve Effros TIVO P?R It’s been hard to miss all the press TiVo’s generated recently. Reminds me of a theory taught in some law schools: if you don’t have the facts on your side, yell louder! That seemed to be what folks at TiVo were doing at the start of the CES confab […]
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01/12/2005
Bay Watch
Less than 1 month after introducing the DVR in the Bay Area, Comcast reached the 10K customer mark. The market gained national attention last month when TiVo gave away more than 2K DVRs after learning that, due to demand, Bay Area customers were waiting 2-3 weeks for installation of Comcast’s DVR service. The MSO scored […]
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01/10/2005
B.S. from DC
NCTA says TiVo, Intel and Microsoft’s claim about CableCARDs is a load of bull. The trio claims the only way to reduce the retail price of CableCARD products is to require cable ops to rely on the cards. "What will impact the market is CE manufacturers reducing the prices of their HDTVs to something the […]
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01/10/2005
Meet the System–San Francisco Bay Area: Meet the New Cable Company, (Not the) Same as the Old Cable Company
Imagine the plight of Barbary Coast dance hall girls: Night after night they’d find themselves in the arms of yet another drunken sailor promising eternal love, and morning after morning they’d wake up to the grim realization that all they’d had was yet another one-night stand. Strip away the 19th century tawdriness and the tinkling […]
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01/07/2005
Plugging Along: Cable Plays Up Examples of Partnership
That piece by Saul Hansell in The NY Times Thurs highlighting cable’s "bottleneck control" over the way Americans watch TV had tongues wagging at CES and MSO boardrooms. The story focused on how those increasingly advanced set-tops provided by cable companies make it hard for the flashy devices displayed at the show to control the […]