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03/01/2003
Broadband: CNR Versus SNR
A recent discussion on the SCTE-List is the basis for this month’s column. The discussion had to do with the difference between carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N ratio or CNR) and signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ratio or SNR), and whether or not the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) includes an upstream SNR spec in addition to […]
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03/01/2003
ET 03
Broadband’s brain trust met in Miami to debate issues ranging from CE, enterprise opportunities, multimedia over IP and evolving architectures. Budget-bloodsucking technologies that can’t document a solid return on investment up front just aren’t going to happen. And anyone who says that broadband engineers aren’t thinking cashflow and investment optimization couldn’t have been anywhere near […]
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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 […]