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Posted in November 2008

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Comment: Re: Sezmi & marketing - Jeff Baumgartner November 26, 2008

TiVo Still Seeking Cable Payoff


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November 26, 2008 : TiVo still expects cable partnerships to catalyze subscription and revenue growth, but the DVR pioneer admits Comcast's contribution 'has yet to be felt in a meaningful way'

Cox Biz: Cable's Next Billionaire?


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November 25, 2008 : MSO's commercial services unit hopes to crack the $1B revenue mark through a growth strategy aimed at larger businesses and a 4G backhaul strategy

TiVo Mobilizes


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November 25, 2008 : 11:40 AM -- But cable box ports need not apply UPDATED 12:00 PM

Cable Advances on Advanced Ads


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November 25, 2008 : No one's ready to say cable's advanced ad ecosystem is ready to meet its public, but a CableLabs interoperability test indicates everything's moving in the right direction

Sony Drives ADB's Set-Back


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November 24, 2008 : FCC filing reveals that CE giant has signed on to fuel a retail strategy that couples its own 'Bravia' TVs with a hideaway interactive set-top developed by ADB

Verizon Gets All-Digi With It


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November 24, 2008 : Telco migrates its FiOS TV footprint to all-digital, meeting a condition set last year by the FCC that enabled Verizon to continue using low-end digital set-tops with embedded security

BigBand Plays Earth


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November 24, 2008 : 8:40 AM -- SDV specialist gets 'qualified' for Korean cable market
Comment: Re: Set-Back Set-Tops - Jeff Baumgartner November 21, 2008

Cloakware Reveals DTA Security Plan


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November 21, 2008 : Irdeto subsidiary is hawking a content protection scheme to US cable operators that aims to 'harden' the security of simple digital terminal adapters and low-end digital set-tops

Dish vs. TiVo


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November 21, 2008 : 12:25 PM -- Round 543 – the bench trial

Novafora/Transmeta Faces Scrutiny


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November 21, 2008 : Deal could be in for a bumpy ride as class action suit claims the dowry Novafora is paying for Transmeta's hand, not to mention all that intellectual property, is unfair

Knology Calls Wideband Play


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November 20, 2008 : 5:50 PM -- Cable 'overbuilder' borrowing a page from Comcast's Docsis 3.0 deployment playbook

Charter: We Still Dig Digeo


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November 20, 2008 : MSO says testing of Digeo's new CableCARD-based HD-DVR in 'final stages,' and discounts rumor that Charter eventually will phase out Digeo's Moxi hardware and software platform
Comment: Class action... - Jeff Baumgartner November 20, 2008
Comment: Re: Set-Back Set-Tops - Jeff Baumgartner November 20, 2008

ADB Develops Tru2way 'Set-Back'


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November 19, 2008 : Although some CE giants are developing flat panel sets that bake in tru2way, at least one of them plans to market an out-of-the-way digital box from ADB

Cable's Fine 'Fellow'


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November 19, 2008 : 9:30 AM -- Former Rogers CTO elevated to IEEE's 'highest grade of membership'

Microtune Amps Up the Upstream


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November 19, 2008 : Firm rounds out its silicon 'front end' for Docsis 3.0 modems with a new amp that can push speeds to 120 Mbit/s and provide competition to Anadigics in this category of wideband components
Comment: Re: blue button - Jeff Baumgartner November 18, 2008

YouTube Contest!


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November 18, 2008 : 4:50 PM -- The challenge? Making a 'good' video

'Abel Cable'


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November 18, 2008 : 9:40 AM -- That's Miss Abel Cable to you
Comment: Had a taste yet? - Jeff Baumgartner November 18, 2008

Novafora Snaps Up Transmeta


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November 18, 2008 : Quiet video processing startup helmed by the founders of what was Terayon comes out of hiding with a $255M offer to acquire Transmeta and its coveted power-management technologies
Comment: Re: blue button - Jeff Baumgartner November 18, 2008

Comcast Rolls Wideband in the Pacific Northwest


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November 17, 2008 : MSO closes in on 2009 deployment commitments for Docsis 3.0 by introducing speedier Internet services to systems in Washington and Oregon that serve a combined 1.8M video subs
Comment: Re: canyou canoe? - Jeff Baumgartner November 17, 2008
Comment: Re: blue button - Jeff Baumgartner November 17, 2008
Comment: Re: New name - Jeff Baumgartner November 17, 2008

Cable ONE Seeks Hi-Def DTA Waiver


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November 17, 2008 : Mid-sized MSO formally files a condition-laden waiver request at the FCC that seeks a blessing for a new one-way digital-to-analog adapter that's capable of producing high-definition TV signals

Cable Scouting Report: TelcoTV '08


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November 14, 2008 : Cable doesn't have to worry about new telecom game-changers right away, but TelcoTV made it clear that the next plan of attack centers on service convergence

Slideshow: CTAM Summit '08


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November 14, 2008 : Pix & caps from this week's event in Boston, brought to you in SquintVision

Renaming EBIF


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November 13, 2008 : 10:40 AM -- Let's help

EchoStar Pitches Telco TV Package


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November 13, 2008 : Charlie Ergen's tech spinoff is going after Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos with an IPTV system that fuses MPEG-4 video transport, set-top boxes, conditional access, and middleware

Comcast, TWC Plan for EBIF


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November 12, 2008 : The two largest US MSOs say they are laying the groundwork for an interactive television platform that will work on their entire universe of digital set-top boxes... and lead the way to tru2way
Comment: Re: CAS? - Jeff Baumgartner November 12, 2008

Cable Pros See Slow Growth in a Bad Economy


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November 11, 2008 : Top cable, tech, and programming execs say the industry will not be crushed by a faltering economy, though one analyst doesn't expect positive growth to hit until 2010

Ad Emblem


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November 11, 2008 : 8:45 AM -- Canoe Ventures has a logo, too

Canoe Ventures: What It Is, What It Ain't


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November 10, 2008 : Execs for the MSO-backed advanced ad initiative tell a standing-room-only crowd that Canoe is a standards-focused technology play, and not a venture that's looking to lock horns with programmers

Is Broadband TV a Cable Killer?


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November 10, 2008 : 'Traditional' video distribution models aren't dead, but they will need to adjust to a broadband-fed world

Evolution Preps New CableCARD


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November 10, 2008 : Company gunning for CableLabs approval early next year, setting the stage for a 'turn-key' tru2way platform that will be targeted at Tier 2 US cable operators

Charter: Wideband Arriving Soon


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November 7, 2008 : MSO is inching toward its first Docsis 3.0 deployment, but is content to stay on the wireless sidelines as other US cable peers make massive mobility moves

Cablevision Still Fighting Off FiOS


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November 6, 2008 : MSO continues to extend subscriber categories in the face of competition from Verizon and says its massive WiFi network ultimately will evolve to support voice services

Canoe's Big Debut


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November 6, 2008 : 3:25 PM -- The big MSO-backed advanced ad venture is expected to offer a clearer glimpse of its hull during next week's CTAM Summit in Boston

Cablevision Plan Faces Fresh Court Hearing


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November 6, 2008 : Copyright Alliance wants the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's decision that gave the greenlight to Cablevision's so-called 'Remote-Storage Digital Video Recorder'
Comment: CN8/Comcast Too - Jeff Baumgartner November 5, 2008

Time Warner Cable Braces for Bad Economy


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November 5, 2008 : MSO grows in most product categories in Q3, but chief warns it's 'naïve to assume' the economic crisis won't impact business

RCN: Subs Like Digital Cutover


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November 5, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Other MSOs can only hope consumer reaction is as muted as they reclaim analog spectrum in the midst of a shiny, new FCC probe

FCC Rocks the 'White Spaces' Vote


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November 4, 2008 : Adopts 'conservative' order, holding that it puts in place safeguards against interference issues raised by cable and broadcasters

Cox to Cut 460 Jobs


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November 4, 2008 : Privately held MSO plans to cut 2% of workforce as it seeks ways to improve operational efficiencies, but its budding wireless division will not be touched
Comment: Re: Add Monitoring? - Jeff Baumgartner November 4, 2008

The World Wide Wait


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November 4, 2008 : 1:45 PM -- Surprise, surprise, surprise! The FCC meeting did not get underway on time today

Comcast Seeds Digital Shift With Free Boxes


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November 4, 2008 : MSO hopes a mix of free digital terminal adapters and a two-way cable box capable of delivering VOD, music services, and an interactive guide will entice analog subs to make the digital switch

TWC Test Drives Tuning Adapters


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November 3, 2008 : The MSO, which has been hit with three SDV-related fines over switched digital video, plans to offer the special tuning device in all-SDV markets following initial trial in Austin

SerComm Gets Certified


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November 3, 2008 : Taiwan-based SerComm becomes the eighth vendor to win CableLabs certification for a modem capable of supporting IPv6 and producing shared Internet speeds of greater than 100 Mbit/s

Mixed Signals Beefs Up Video Monitoring


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November 3, 2008 : Vendor expands video system to ensure that cable ops can keep check the heartbeat of video as content arrives at the headend and travels deeper into network hubs and on to customer homes