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07/20/2006
TWC Customers Vote with Remotes
Time Warner Cable customers will have the opportunity to help decide who will be NBC’s "Last Comic Standing" and have their votes count by using their remotes. Time Warner Cable, through its use of Navic Networks’ interactive TV application, will allow digital cable customers in select markets to respond with their remote controls to help […]
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07/17/2006
SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Wrap-Up
Switched digital topped the hit parade in Denver. By Simon Applebaum Bandwidth is the cable industry’s equivalent of oil—a precious commodity to be conserved, the core of technological innovation and a source of revenue. The better operators can exploit their hybrid fiber coax bandwidth, the better they can provide competitively priced, reliable services to their […]
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07/01/2006
Esser Speaks
Cox Communications President Pat Esser delivered a keynote address at GlobalComm in June. Here are a few excerpts from his speech:
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07/01/2006
Self-Terminating Taps and Micro-Reflections
A Communications Technology reader recently sent me the following via email. "In your article `Linear Distortions, Part 1' (July 2005, www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/0705/0705_lineardistortions.htm), you mention the use of self-terminating taps as a possible ca
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06/29/2006
Expo Show Floor News
CT’s Video Reports was on hiatus last week during the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, but here’s a quick rundown of some of the show floor news. Pace demonstrated its Miami HD all digital set-top box at the show. The Miami box is slated for CableLabs certification later this year and has a commercial deployment date of […]
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06/29/2006
More OCAP
To learn more about OCAP and the previously mentioned Time Warner Cable trial in North Carolina, read this recent Communications Technology story. Mailbag: Gear Horror The June issue of CT let readers commiserate over crushed and mutilated field equipment in this story. AT&T Rolls Out Video Service On Monday, AT&T officially joined the TV industry […]