Britt: Docsis 3.0 Coming to NYC
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 30, 2008 : Verizon hopes to take a bite out of The Big Apple with FiOS, but Time Warner Cable is already making plans to bite back
SeaChange Software Strategy Surges
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 30, 2008 : VOD vendor beats the street, buoyed by additional backoffice software deployments with Comcast and Cox
TiVo Sees Dish Drama Dissolving
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 29, 2008 : The DVR patent infringement case isn't likely to reach the Supreme Court, TiVo execs say
Sony Supports tru2way
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 27, 2008 : Sony and six major US MSOs sign a memo involving tru2way that could result in TVs that get cable services with no need for a set-top
Do the Telcos Fear tru2way?
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
May 27, 2008 : With cable MSOs rolling out tru2way, AT&T says its 'been there done that' while Verizon feels a little left out
Verizon Downloads 'Starz Play' Deal
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 27, 2008 : A big telco, not a cable operator, becomes the first to launch a subset of Starz's Internet VOD service
Zeugma Rethinks Edge Routing
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
May 27, 2008 : A melding of routing and computing power could help carriers deploy new services faster
Ericsson: Ready to Ramp GPON
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
May 26, 2008 : Ericsson's North American CTO says the company's GPON deployments at AT&T are coming in late 2008 or early 2009
Oh Canada: BCE Buyout Falls Apart
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
May 23, 2008 : Bell Canada's privatization bid is on the brink of collapsing amid shaky financing and an appeals court ruling
SeaChange Posts Q1
LR Cable News Wire Feed -
May 29, 2008 : Total revenues 17% higher year-over-year
Cox Hires Care Specialist
LR Cable News Wire Feed -
May 29, 2008 : Barbara Thwaites named executive director of customer care technologies for Cox Communications
Sigma Reports Q1
LR Cable News Wire Feed -
May 29, 2008 : Net revenue for the first quarter was $56.9M
Symmetricom Lists 'Nightmares'
LR Cable News Wire Feed -
May 29, 2008 : Video highlights top 10 video quality issues and whitepaper outlines solutions
The Friday Five
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 30, 2008 : Dish fires back at TiVo, Comcast.net hackers speak... and a handful of other items that caught our attention as the week draws to a close
Matt Polka, President, American Cable Association
LRTV Interviews - Matt Polka- President- American Cable Association -
May 30, 2008 : Matt Polka is in touch with the small and mid-sized cable operator and, interestingly, their concerns are too terribly different from that of Comcast and others. The telcos and satellite operators are going hard after their core video businesses, forcing them to branch out and be more creative.
Know Thine History
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
May 28, 2008 : A fake news nugget found on the way to VOD-ville
Comcast Shedding Some Systems
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
May 28, 2008 : MSO looking to tighten up its clusters by selling off more than 40 systems serving about 400,000 subs
Truly tru2way
LRTV Documentaries - Truly tru2way -
May 28, 2008 : The promise of tru2way is closer to becoming a reality. This move to a common software platform could let cable companies, programmers, and gadget makers provide a real interactive TV experience, even without requiring a set-top box. The transition might be painful at first, but the payoff should be huge if the services come anywhere close to measuring up to the hype. In this video, hear perspectives from Cox Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., CableLabs, and the editors of Cable Digital News and Light Reading.
It's About Time (Warner)
BroadBananas - Michael Harris -
May 27, 2008 : Analyst suggests that a spun-off Time Warner Cable could produce nation's first blue-chip cable operator
Cable vs Telco
LRTV Documentaries - Cable vs Telco -
May 27, 2008 : Cable companies have more reach, deeper video-on-demand (VOD) plans, and the ability to install services faster in residential neighborhoods. But not everyone thinks the cable companies have the long term advantage. From The Cable Show in New Orleans, we get perspectives from Heavy Reading, Cox Communications Inc., and The American Cable Association (ACA), as well as the outspoken editors of Cable Digital News and Light Reading
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