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Posted in April 2012

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Who's Winning Cable's Tablet TV Deals?


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April 30, 2012 : RGB, Envivio and Harmonic – not Cisco and Motorola – appear to be grabbing the early linear TV transcoding deals with some major MSOs
Comment: More Hulu walls - Jeff Baumgartner April 30, 2012

Comcast/Verizon Combo Steers Clear of FiOS


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (13)
April 30, 2012 : Verizon and the MSO tie in cable modem and LTE data upgrades in six markets where Comcast competes with AT&T and CenturyLink

Apple Eyes Epix Streaming Deal


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
April 30, 2012 : Also: CableCARD gains momentum; Hulu courts authentication model; Canoe Ventures to shut down NYC digs; former Sunflower GM joins Synacor

Photos: The SCTE Power Tour


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April 27, 2012 : Join us for a look at a hybrid power system the SCTE has deployed to help MSOs study how to keep biz customers humming when the grid goes down
Comment: Re: 60% - Jeff Baumgartner April 27, 2012

Comcast Brings IPv6 to the Home Network


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 27, 2012 : Also: Stake sale would value Hulu at $2B; Synacor profits on TV Everywhere; more TiVo DVRs get Comcast VoD

Which Cable Card Will EchoStar Play Next?


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 27, 2012 : 11:20 AM After exiting the US cable set-top business, EchoStar may still find success baking its Sling technology in boxes made by other vendors

TW Cable Sets Docsis 3.0 Subscriber Record


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April 26, 2012 : The MSO now has 218,000 residential customers taking its 30-Meg and 50-Meg broadband tiers

Arris Gains From Docsis 3.0 CPE Surge


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (9)
April 26, 2012 : About 60% of modem and gateways shipped by Arris in Q1 had that Docsis 3.0 flavor as MSOs accelerated CPE upgrade cycles
Comment: Subscriber trends - Jeff Baumgartner April 26, 2012

Broadband & Biz Services Power TWC's Q1


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
April 26, 2012 : TW Cable sheds another 94,000 video subscribers in Q1, but healthy gains in other services help MSO deliver a tidy profit

Envivio Pulls the IPO Trigger


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 25, 2012 : But shoots off a toe, as shares drop 5% in their debut. TW Cable, Huawei and Ericsson were its largest customers in fiscal 2012

Sprint, DirecTV Try to Stop Wireless Spectrum Review


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 25, 2012 : The FCC is still reviewing Verizon's proposed wireless spectrum buy. Also: Microsoft starts running more, longer commercials on Xbox Live TV service

Diller Says Aereo Doesn't Sell Content


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 24, 2012 : Aereo's high-profile investor also tells Congress that ESPN would be 'insane' to bypass MSOs and sell directly to consumers
Comment: Re: Loss leader - Jeff Baumgartner April 24, 2012
Comment: Re: One D or two? - Jeff Baumgartner April 24, 2012
Comment: Re: Pigs don't fly - Jeff Baumgartner April 24, 2012

AT&T's DSL Pain Offset by U-Verse Gains


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April 24, 2012 : Also: Netflix's 2012 streaming challenge; Synacor lands another TV Everywhere deal; Blockbuster HQ to share space with Dish
Comment: EchoStar's comment - Jeff Baumgartner April 24, 2012

EchoStar Backs Out of Cable Set-Top Biz


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
April 24, 2012 : EchoStar cedes the set-top market to Cisco and Motorola as it closes down its set-top business along with Aria, a video platform targeted at Tier 2/3 MSOs UPDATED 11:50 AM

The TV Everywhere Tax


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 23, 2012 : 5:45 PM Is $20 per month a fair price for access to a Slingbox-in-the-cloud plus network DVR, or is NimbleTV just a tax on TV Everywhere?
Comment: Re: legality - Jeff Baumgartner April 23, 2012

Netflix Beats Predictions, But Stock Slips Anyway


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April 23, 2012 : Shares dive more than 15% in after hours as investors fret about Netflix's soft Q2 subscriber forecast
Comment: Re: legality - Jeff Baumgartner April 23, 2012
Comment: legality - Jeff Baumgartner April 23, 2012

NimbleTV Takes Video Subscriptions Over the Top


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (9)
April 23, 2012 : The startup tests a video streaming/network DVR combo in New York that, it claims, will help MSOs fulfill the promise of TV Everywhere

Netflix Expected to Post Q1 Loss


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 23, 2012 : Also: TW Cable adds sports to TV streaming app; Comcast, Netflix execs pull down big bucks in 2011; another Cablevision exec departs

Startup Pitches Android Set-Tops to MSOs


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 20, 2012 : White-label Android-powered set-tops are among the devices Dyyno has assembled in its TV Everywhere arsenal for cable operators

Cox & Comcast's Contrasting Cell Tower Plans


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April 20, 2012 : Also: 'Free' VoD market could be worth $1 billion; Hulu tees up more Web TV originals; WalMart's disc-to-digital program gets high marks

Verizon Downplays DSL in FiOS Markets


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April 19, 2012 : Verizon CFO Fran Shammo says DSL won't be sold where its FiOS fiber-optic Internet service is available
Comment: Re: Data buckets - Jeff Baumgartner April 19, 2012

Cablevision Expands Live TV Streaming at Home


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
April 19, 2012 : Cablevision allows live TV streaming to PCs, Macs, iPads, iPod Touches and laptops in the home with its apps
Comment: More posturing? - Jeff Baumgartner April 19, 2012

Dish Stashing Cash for Its 4G Run


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April 19, 2012 : Also: Huawei tops VoD server market; Cartoon Network tunes up for TV Everywhere; Netflix CEO's rants have much to do with competition
Comment: Re: wow whos next? - Jeff Baumgartner April 19, 2012

Verizon's Spectrum Auction: Winners & Losers


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April 18, 2012 : The fallout could be good for T-Mobile and Verizon's MSO partners, but bad for Dish if the feds try to impose a spectrum cap
Comment: Re: I don't get it - Jeff Baumgartner April 18, 2012

Whoa! WOW Buys Knology for $1.5B


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
April 18, 2012 : Incumbent MSOs such as Comcast, TW Cable, Charter and Mediacom will soon have to deal with a bigger broadband competitor

TWC Streams Live TV to Androids


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 18, 2012 : Also: Hulu subs reach 2 million; Comcast's Xfinity Home blows into Chicago; DirecTV brings HD-DVRs to hotels
Comment: Re: Clarification? - Jeff Baumgartner April 17, 2012
Comment: outdoor too - Jeff Baumgartner April 17, 2012

Cox Lawsuit Targets Sprint Mobile TV


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
April 17, 2012 : Cox's countersuit proves, once again, that friends can quickly become enemies when business deals crumble
Comment: Series F - Jeff Baumgartner April 17, 2012

Video-Over-Wi-Fi Startup Bags $79M More


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (7)
April 17, 2012 : Quantenna lands a stack of cash as pay-TV providers seek out ways to move HD video around the house via gateways and set-tops

FCC Indulges Netflix CEO


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April 17, 2012 : Also: Tablets become the key secondary TV screen; Level 3's CDN packs on muscle; Casa scores a CMTS deal; Synacor lands MetroCast

Cisco Partners Up for TV Apps


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April 16, 2012 : Cisco's Videoscape has teamed with a startup called Coincident to bring interactive TV apps to tablets, smartphones and other companion devices

Netflix CEO Keeps Whining About Comcast


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April 16, 2012 : Also: Roku streams into Canada; DirecTV, Starz deal adds TV Everywhere; NBC gears up for Olympic streaming

Comcast Tests Network DVR in Boston


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April 13, 2012 : Sources say Comcast is conducting a small nDVR pilot that closely emulates the system Cablevision deployed in Connecticut and New York

Entropic Readies Its Run at Broadcom


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April 13, 2012 : With the Trident deal sealed, Entropic will go after Broadcom with integrated MoCA and set-top box SoCs as MSOs ramp up their IP video plans

Comcast's MetroE Gets a Big Hit


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 13, 2012 : Also: Entropic seals the Trident deal; Boxee reveals its box user base; Comcast opens up the IPv6 gateway; HBO offers free streams
Comment: Re: Big screens - Jeff Baumgartner April 12, 2012

TW Cable, VZ Wireless Gang Up on AT&T


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 12, 2012 : The MSO and its wireless partner launch service bundles in five markets that are in U-verse territory

Who Will Land the Apple Television?


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (8)
April 12, 2012 : 11:45 AM Analyst says Dish and DirecTV are 'prime candidates' to connect with Apple's new TV (if it really exists)

Comcast, Akamai Team on IPv6 Expansion


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April 12, 2012 : Also: Charter boots up interactive ads; Moto beefs up its video transcoding menu; Cablevision unit pipes uncompressed HD via Ethernet
Comment: Re: Hold it - Jeff Baumgartner April 11, 2012
Comment: Weird spot for VZ - Jeff Baumgartner April 11, 2012
Comment: Hold it - Jeff Baumgartner April 11, 2012

Lawsuit Causes Verizon to Change VoD System


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April 11, 2012 : Cisco and Ericsson aid telco's FiOS VoD system redesign as Verizon appeals lawsuits brought on by ActiveVideo Networks
Comment: Cable Show Topic - Jeff Baumgartner April 11, 2012

Will Service Providers Steal ADT's Customers?


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April 11, 2012 : MSOs and telcos are getting into home security and monitoring, but report warns that they'll have trouble turning that into a material business

Skitter Has 'Virtual' MSO Ambitions


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April 11, 2012 : Also: Verizon sub sues over DSL speeds; Hargray nabs a Charter system; cable co-op makes changes; TiVo CEO gets a new deal

Harmonic's Q1 Gets a Haircut


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 10, 2012 : Video gear vendor chops revenue guidance by up to 11% as sales slump in Europe, but an analyst's already predicting a rosier Q2
Comment: Re: MIT trial - Jeff Baumgartner April 10, 2012

Comcast Presses Play on TiVo VoD


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 10, 2012 : MSO may keep the specter of new AllVid rules at bay as it starts to stream its VoD library to retail TiVo boxes in San Francisco
Comment: Re: Timing's off - Jeff Baumgartner April 10, 2012

TW Cable Tunes Up Android TV Plan


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 10, 2012 : Also: Broadband-connected TVs on the rise; Comcast gives HBO GO on the Xbox 360 the all-clear; Avail-TVN expands TV Everywhere platform UPDATED 4:10 PM
Comment: cloudy UI - Jeff Baumgartner April 9, 2012

Startup's Home Phone Service Goes Anywhere


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
April 9, 2012 : UXP Systems believes its multi-screen home phone system will help juice up cable's slowing home phone business
Comment: Re: Just curious - Jeff Baumgartner April 5, 2012

Cisco Bulks Up for Cable's Next Platform


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 5, 2012 : The CCAP era won't take Cisco by surprise, as the company is pushing its edge QAM to next-generation density

Cisco Routers Picked for KDG's 100G Core


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April 5, 2012 : Also: HBO GO braces for Comcast breakthrough; DirecTV-Tribune cut a deal; Arris sheds connector unit; Boxee's regulatory challenge
Comment: Re: Huh? - Jeff Baumgartner April 4, 2012

Google Fiber Goes 100 Miles & Counting


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 4, 2012 : Google's 1Gbit/s fiber deployment in the Kansas Cities is in 'full swing,' with half of its fiber huts already built
Comment: ARM-based? - Jeff Baumgartner April 4, 2012

Comcast Sizes Up All-IP Set-Top


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April 4, 2012 : The X3, Comcast's first all-IP, high-def client box, could be a sign that IP video simulcast is on the way

Cord Cutters Hit 1M Mark


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 4, 2012 : Also: Mediacom opens to Roku streaming; ex-Cablevision exec lands at Charter; CableLabs's slow CEO search; Sony avoids legal scrape with Rovi
Comment: Re: Just curious - Jeff Baumgartner April 3, 2012

Countdown's on for EPON Protocol Over Coax


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (7)
April 3, 2012 : School's out by this summer for engineers working toward an EPON-over-Coax standard

DirecTV-Tribune Tiff Turns Nasty


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April 3, 2012 : Also: Pace taps international president; Google TV sets sights on Europe; Concurrent splices VoD ads; AT&T exec joins Cox Business
Comment: Re: With Kinect - Jeff Baumgartner April 3, 2012

RGB Tries to Streamline Mobile Video


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
April 3, 2012 : RGB says it can help service providers avoid storing multiple formats of video for multiple devices

The End of the World[Gate]


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
April 2, 2012 : 6:10 PM Chapter 7 appears to be the final one for a pioneer in interactive television and broadband videophones
Comment: With Kinect - Jeff Baumgartner April 2, 2012

Xfinity TV Meets the Xbox 360


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
April 2, 2012 : Comcast's authenticated TV Everywhere recently debuted on Microsoft's IP-connected game console. Here's a brief look at the app in action

Sigma Bids $21M for Trident's DTV Scraps


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April 2, 2012 : Sigma Designs is the 'stalking horse' bidder for the digital TV silicon assets of bankrupt Trident, which recently sold its STB assets

Netflix Buys DVD.com Domain


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April 2, 2012 : Also: Netflix CEO carps about Comcast's HBO GO policy; Ericsson wraps up BelAir buy; Sigma Systems provisions WOW's video gateways