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03/01/2003
HDTV RISING: Reception and Processing Lessons-Learned
Time Warner in Raleigh, N.C., and Cox in Las Vegas learned that high-definition TV demands extra care in signal reception and processing. With the quantity of programming on the rise and the price of display monitors in decline, the stars are aligning over high-definition television (HDTV). Are cable engineers ready to play their role in […]
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02/10/2003
Getting ‘Taken’ Was Good
BY JON LAFAYETTE More amazing than any of the special effects seen on the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken may be the fact that Sci Fi Channel just about broke even on the $40 million epic the first time it aired. On cable, big-budget original programming usually pays for itself only after repeated airings, if then. […]
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02/03/2003
Black Sunday: NAB, NCTA Scrap Over HD
BY ANTHONY CRUPI What started off as a classic grudge match between two well-balanced adversaries turned into a savage and unforgettable keel-hauling. And when the final gun went off, all that was left was bitterness, allegations of wrongdoing and the sense that a huge opportunity had been squandered. No, we’re not talking about Super Bowl […]
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02/03/2003
a League of His Own
BY STACI D. KRAMER Bob Johnson swings into the conference room next to his penthouse office at BET headquarters in northeast Washington, D.C., settles cautiously into a chair and places a set of crutches in easy reach. The crutches are the result of a rare misstep for the usually astute entrepreneur, a bad move during […]
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02/01/2003
If Only It Were This Easy…Building Cable's All-IP Network
To create an IP/HFC network "on-button," cable operators will have to focus on some core network elements. Imagine this scenario. A cable operator is able to aggregate all of its Internet protocol (IP)-based voice, video and data traffic from its residential and business subscribers into a single IP aggregation switch at the local distribution hub […]
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02/01/2003
IP Meets Voice, Video and Data
As IP becomes universal, cable operators can tap this flexible protocol to deliver a rich array of data, voice and multimedia services.