Articles

Independent Show - The Cavalry Arrives, Riding the Cloud

July 31, 2011 8:45 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments

If there’s one thing that the Tier 2 and 3 service providers that attended the Independent Show have in common with their Tier 1 peers, it is that, as a group, their needs span the range from the triedand-true to new innovations.

Bringing CALM to Cable Commercials

July 31, 2011 8:40 pm | by Steve Liu, Vice President of Product Management and Business Development for Video Network Monitoring at Tektronix | Comments

Under the new law, U.S. broadcasters, content providers, advertisers, cable operators, satellite TV providers, IPTV providers and other multichannel video distributors must all strive to tone down annoyingly loud commercials...

In Perspective - Right as Rain

July 31, 2011 8:35 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments

A common thread running through many of the most contentious arguments involving telecom markets worldwide is the issue of ensuring access to broadband.

Memory Lane - Netflix and the Energy Crisis

July 31, 2011 8:30 pm | by Stewart Schley, Media & Technology Writer, Denver, Colo. | Comments

If people knew more about how much electricity they were using, how would it affect their consumption?

Ciciora’s Corner - I’m so old …

July 31, 2011 8:25 pm | by Walt S. Ciciora, Expert on Cable and Consumer Electronics Issues | Comments

A good friend of mine, Ted Hartson, likes to say, “I’m so old, I can remember when phone calls came on wires and television came over the air.”

Open Mic - ACA: FCC Needs to Act on Retrans

July 31, 2011 8:20 pm | by Matthew Polka, President and CEO of the American Cable Association | Comments

The broken and costly “retrans” regime affects all ACA operator members and their customers in profound ways, justifying the time and expense in pursuing a reform agenda.

Engineering-Wise - Process and Quality

July 31, 2011 8:15 pm | by Thomas Russell, Senior Director of Standards for The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers | Comments

The missing element in the simple process description is feedback. Feedback is what allows the process to correct itself from errors introduced by various impairments.

Capital Currents - The “New” Broadcast Satellite Band

July 31, 2011 8:10 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments

Four years ago, I wrote about the new broadcast satellite band at 17/24 GHz and how slow the FCC was moving in adopting rules to allow its use. Well, another shoe has dropped...

Web Extras

July 31, 2011 8:00 pm | Comments

WEBINARS: Transcoding for TV Everywhere and Cable Wi-Fi – Enabling More Than Customer Retention; VIDEO: Check out CED’s Live From The Cable Show video showcase; DAILY NEWS & BLOGS & FACEBOOK.

Web Extras - August 2011

July 31, 2011 8:00 pm | Comments

WEBINARS: Transcoding for TV Everywhere and Cable Wi-Fi – Enabling More Than Customer Retention; VIDEO: Check out CED’s Live From The Cable Show video showcase; DAILY NEWS & BLOGS & FACEBOOK.

Satisfaction as a Weapon

June 30, 2011 8:55 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments

As the service packages offered by competing multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) come to resemble each other more and more, customer satisfaction is becoming an increasingly important variable in the competitive equation.

The 2011 Cable Show

June 30, 2011 8:50 pm | by CED staff | Comments

At the 2011 Cable Show in Chicago, TV Everywhere was seemingly everywhere, including in the cloud. And widgets are rapidly mutating into apps.

CED Up Front - July 2011

June 30, 2011 8:45 pm | Comments

Cable’s long and winding broadband road; Examples of cable industry partnerships and adoption programs; CMAP is dead! Long live CCAP! The taxonomy of the cable show announcements; Nagra-Opentv’s Woidke tees up advertising.