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Google angling to enter MVPD biz
November 4, 2011 2:55 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe company has long talked about being in the TV business. The issue was whether it would voluntarily restrict itself to over-the-top (OTT) content or attempt to compete with multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs).
A shave and a service cut – two bits
October 26, 2011 12:12 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsPeople still fear that cord-cutting may yet develop into a phenomenon, but the evidence is that it isn’t happening much.
Customer service debacle
October 17, 2011 2:53 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThere's a large MVPD out there with a customer service problem. The question is whether the problem is with one guy or with the entire customer care organization.
I met her in a club down in old SoHo
September 28, 2011 10:22 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsTelVue introduced a new version of its line of broadcast servers.
Internet is essential
September 20, 2011 10:49 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe cable industry has always positioned its broadband as a premium product.
Those guys. Again.
July 8, 2011 1:30 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsA bunch of high-profile refugees from BitTorrent emerged from under the rock they've been carefully hiding under for three years to show off their new thing...
Adara Technologies takes SDV to the cloud
May 27, 2011 10:30 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsAdara Technologies might have figured out how to revive the market for switched digital video.
Home networks made practical
May 18, 2011 8:51 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsAmdocs is showing customers a new permutation of home gateway.
If at first you don't succeed, find an even bigger squeaky wheel
April 13, 2011 11:02 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe ACA's top priority is to push reform of retransmission consent rules.
Ensequence: Get off the shelf
April 4, 2011 10:03 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsCustom or standardized off-the-shelf? That's often a hardware question, but it applies to interactive video applications, too. Interactive app specialist Ensequence knows which way it would prefer everyone to go.
CED's CableLabs Winter Conference boycott
February 25, 2011 8:50 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsCED will not be covering the events of the CableLabs Winter Conference this year.
Goin' mobile, mobile, mobile
February 11, 2011 8:52 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsP2P video is coming on.
Thinking caps on for Cable Show ’11 Tech Forum
December 22, 2010 8:22 am | by Traci Patterson | Blogs | CommentsThe NCTA invites more authors to go long.
Level 3, Comcast spat could get ugly
November 30, 2010 9:54 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe ultimate question: Who pays for Netflix streaming?
Notes from TelcoTV
November 10, 2010 11:13 am | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsVerizon may have placed the keynote speaker at TelcoTV, but this show is really about Tier II and Tier III providers, a bunch of scrappers ready to beg, borrow and steal if that's what it takes to get into the video business.


