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Motorola throws its support behind G.hn
January 9, 2012 2:58 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe company is the most consumer-oriented of the standard's supporters thus far, heartening the standard's other backers.
Kit Digital picks up Sezmi assets, clients for $27M
January 6, 2012 2:39 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsSezmi has been purchased by Kit Digital for about $27 million in stock and cash. Both companies specialize in cloud-based multi-screen delivery, notably with capabilities to distribute video on LTE wireless networks.
Charter adds Turner Networks to TV Everywhere fold
January 5, 2012 2:50 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCharter's TV Everywhere platform received a big boost with the recent addition of video content, both online and via mobile apps, from Turner Entertainment Networks.
Disney and Comcast reach a long-term deal
January 5, 2012 2:47 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Walt Disney Co. reached a long-term agreement with the nation's largest TV signal provider, Comcast, that extends their partnership into the next decade.
Moto gateway supports new home control services
January 5, 2012 2:44 pm | by Brian Santo | Products | CommentsMotorola Mobility will be showing a new gateway in its 4Home series at CES that is designed to integrate a wider range of broadband-based services, including home automation and energy management.
MetroPCS inks broadcast mobile TV deal
January 4, 2012 1:20 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe company will start selling an Android-based Samsung smartphone later this year equipped with an ATSC chip, the hardware needed to receive broadcast mobile television signals in the United States.
Broadcom gears up for CES with Sling, MoCA 2.0 SoC
January 4, 2012 1:18 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsBroadcom has a full dance card of TV Everywhere and connected home offerings for the International Consumer Electronics Show, including six system-on-a-chip (SoC) MoCA 2.0 products and the integration of Sling Media into a SoC platform.
Roku expands beyond Internet video-streaming boxes
January 4, 2012 1:16 pm | by The Associated Press | Products | CommentsRoku is thinking outside its set-top box in an attempt to bring more Internet video to flat-panel televisions.
Former Charter CTO Fawaz joins Synacor's board
January 4, 2012 1:12 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsFormer Charter Communications executive vice president and chief technical officer Marwan Fawaz, along with Time Warner exec Gary Ginsberg, was recently appointed to Synacor's board of directors.
THE BROADBAND 50 - 2011
January 1, 2012 2:57 am | by CED Staff | Articles | CommentsHere at CED, the results of our annual Broadband 50 are unpredictable, with a different No. 1 for four years running now. The Broadband 50 celebrates the companies, trends and occurrences, and people...
CED’s 2011 Pacesetter Awards
January 1, 2012 1:45 am | by CED Staff | Articles | CommentsThe 2011 class of Pacesetter Award recipients represent innovators in a number of endeavors crucial to the competitive viability of cable operators around the world...
In Perspective - Six degrees of … no, wait …
January 1, 2012 1:30 am | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Articles | CommentsIf it isn’t directly connected, odds are that it would take only a few steps to get to the technology. Call it Six Degrees of Multi-Screen.
Open Mic - New Requirements for Linear Transcoding
January 1, 2012 1:03 am | by By Michael Adams, Head of Software Strategy for Solution Area TV at Ericsson | Articles | CommentsOver-the-top (OTT) video traffic continues to increase as more and more consumers start to use long-form video portals such as Hulu, Netflix and HBO Go.
New Products - January, 2012
January 1, 2012 12:27 am | Products | CommentsTechnicolor has launched MediaEcho, an application that synchronizes secondary content with Blu-ray, video-on-demand and broadcast programming; ECI Telecom has converged the packet and optical layers in the network with its Optimized Multi-Layer Transport system; Gefen's next-generation Mini Pattern Signal Generator for HDMI 3-D TV is designed for easy mobility...
How spectrum allocation became a political football
December 22, 2011 12:31 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe question of what to do with white space spectrum gets tangled up in the bitter partisan wrangling over tax policy in Washington.
