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Motorola, FourthWall form a multi-screen bond
December 13, 2011 3:02 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsMotorola Mobility has adopted products from FourthWall Media to support tighter integration between set-top boxes and mobile devices.
Turner’s Heller joins Arris’ board
December 13, 2011 2:59 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsArris has added Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) vice chairman Andrew Heller to its board of directors.
Expo: Playing Out of Bounds
December 12, 2011 1:14 am | by CED Magazine | Articles | CommentsAt Cable-Tec Expo, we ran into Comcast CTO Tony Werner, mentioned what Verizon’s Eric Bruno had announced about Home Control, and asked him if Comcast had any plans to do likewise: sell broadband-based services outside of its traditional footprint.
In Perspective – An Extra Helping
December 11, 2011 5:44 pm | by Brian Santo | Articles | CommentsOrdinarily, we include coverage of Cable-Tec Expo in our November/December print issue. This year, Expo was scheduled too late in the year for us to include it in that edition, prompting this extra online installment.
Time Warner Cable boosts data speeds, adds HD nets in Carolinas
December 9, 2011 3:15 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsTime Warner Cable has ramped up the upstream and downstream speeds of several of its data tiers in its Carolinas system, as well as added more HD channels.
SeaChange adds a half-dozen multi-screen customers
December 9, 2011 3:07 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsDrama in its boardroom may have dominated recent headlines, but the big story at SeaChange International is that it is finding singular success with its evolution to a multi-screen strategy.
Maple Leafs and Raptors sold to Rogers and BCE
December 9, 2011 2:56 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsCanada's largest telecommunication companies have agreed to buy the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Toronto Raptors; the fierce telecom rivals seek live content for their sports channels, digital properties and smartphones.
Ensuring Network Performance in the TV Everywhere Era
December 9, 2011 1:38 pm | by James Welch, senior consulting engineer at IneoQuest Technologies | Articles | CommentsMost service providers currently deliver MPEG transport streams to their customers, although on at least one leg of their journeys, those streams are likely to travel on a packet network. As streaming services gain popularity, that's guaranteed to happen more often. There are new standards available that operators can use to assure their networks are able to properly handle the traffic.
Hollywood flubs movie system launch, miffs users
December 8, 2011 2:28 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsWarner Bros. is learning a hard lesson about launching an ill-conceived product in the age of social media.
Game streaming service OnLive coming to tablets
December 8, 2011 2:22 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsOnLive, the start-up whose technology streams video games over an Internet connection, is expanding its service to tablets and mobile devices.
In the media: Verizon down with OTT
December 7, 2011 2:12 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsVerizon Communications is working on an over-the-top service that would stream movies and TV shows to customers outside of its FiOS video service footprint.
Humbled Netflix CEO still thinking, talking big
December 7, 2011 2:04 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsTo hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet's leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie made by a great film director.
Cablemas phasing out VOD for streaming
December 6, 2011 2:18 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsLast May, Cablemas bought more than a quarter million hybrid set-tops. The other shoe just dropped: Cablemas is going to phase out its traditional video-on-demand (VOD) system for a quarter of its TV subscribers in favor of a broadband-based streaming service managed by Avail-TVN.
Cox's iPad app lifts off
December 5, 2011 2:11 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAt SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Cox President Pat Esser said his company would deliver on its iPad app during the holiday season. The free app, which Cox calls Cox TV Connect, is available for downloading from the Apple App Store.
Comcast's Smit, TWC's Britt saddle up on Verizon Wireless deal
December 5, 2011 2:09 pm | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsWhile the shockwaves from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks' decision to sell their wireless spectrum - through their joint venture of SpectrumCo – continue to settle, company execs hit their respective blogs to provide additional insights.
