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Memory Lane - Netflix and the Energy Crisis
July 31, 2011 8:30 pm | by Stewart Schley, Media & Technology Writer, Denver, Colo. | CommentsIf 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 | CommentsA 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 | CommentsThe 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 | CommentsThe 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 | CommentsFour 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 - August 2011
July 31, 2011 8:00 pm | CommentsWEBINARS: 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
July 31, 2011 8:00 pm | CommentsWEBINARS: 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 | CommentsAs 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 | CommentsAt 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 | CommentsCable’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.
Video-grade Wi-Fi – A Requirement for TV Everywhere
June 30, 2011 8:35 pm | by Lior Weiss, Vice President of Marketing at Celeno Communications | CommentsInterestingly, a key element of the success of Wi-Fi – the use of a particular segment of unlicensed spectrum – is also its Achilles heel.
In Perspective - Cable’s Street Cred
June 30, 2011 8:30 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | CommentsWill cable continue to be relevant?
Memory Lane - Spotting an Opportunity
June 30, 2011 8:25 pm | by Stewart Schley Media & Technology Writer, Denver, Colo. | CommentsSince launching its on-demand service in 2003, Comcast alone has served more than 20 billion program streams, thanks to an underlying technology platform that marries digital video encoding, storage and delivery.
Open Mic - Tell me again: What is CCAP?
June 30, 2011 8:20 pm | by Jorge Salinger, Vice President of Access Architecture at Comcast | CommentsThe updated technical report containing the additional operational modes, plus the use of a unique and agreed-upon name, is intended to positively outline how the same device can be used by various MSOs in different ways.
Engineering-Wise - System Thinking
June 30, 2011 8:15 pm | by Daniel Howard, Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO of The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers | CommentsThe possibility is escalating that an engineer who is tasked with maintaining a single service on the network may inadvertently affect the performance of other services.
