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01/01/2011
Addressing The Consumer STB Transition
Apple TV. Google TV. Boxee. These are the newest Internet set-top boxes (STBs) released in the last few months. Add the Roku box, and we have an intricate competitive landscape for a just-realized industry. Steve Jobs claims that his Apple TV “hobby” has sold more than a quarter-million units, without getting serious about it. Logitech, […]
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01/01/2011
DISHing On EchoStar And Sling Technology
Now that operators have accepted the fact that video viewing is not the couch-only activity it used to be, who has been making the greatest strides when it comes to allowing subscribers to watch what they want, when they want, on the devices they want? Arguably, EchoStar (in conjunction with its Sling Media affiliate and […]
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01/01/2011
Got 'TV Everywhere' Authentication?
Television, and media content in general, traditionally has been time- and place-based. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the family would gather around the TV on Sunday night to watch Ed Sullivan; if you weren’t there at the right time, you missed it. Movies have a limited time run at your local theater; […]
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01/01/2011
Tom Wheeler Talks 'TV Everywhere'
Tom Wheeler is no stranger to the video world. Prior to joining investment firm Core Capital in 2005 as a managing director, he racked up nearly three decades of working in the telecom policy and business-development space. Wheeler founded multiple companies offering cable, wireless and video communications services; and he served as president of the […]
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01/01/2011
Understanding Constant Power- Per-Carrier
“Constant power-per-carrier operation causes a fair amount of confusion, largely because of the observed change in the upstream signal’s 'haystack' height.”
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12/29/2010
ARRIS Hires Toft to Head Comcast Account Team
ARRIS has announced that Don Toft has been hired as vice president of sales, with direct responsibility for the Comcast account. In this position, he will lead the ARRIS Comcast account team in providing support to the nation’s largest cable MSO in its purchases and deployments of the complete line of ARRIS solutions. Toft joins […]