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Posted in September 2008

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CableLabs Stamps Panasonic TVs


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September 30, 2008 : Panasonic gets the green light to market two tru2way-powered HD screens at retail in time for the 2008 holiday season

Predictable Survey Says…


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September 30, 2008 : 1:00 PM -- People don't like consumption caps. Sorry, Comcast

TiVo Goes PC


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September 29, 2008 : 3:10 PM -- And pre-empts the 'CablePC?'
Comment: Re: could be good - Jeff Baumgartner September 29, 2008
Comment: Re: could be good - Jeff Baumgartner September 29, 2008

DirecTV's Gain Could Result in Dish Losses


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September 29, 2008 : Analyst says Dish Network stands to lose hundreds of thousands of subscribers after AT&T picks DirecTV as its exclusive, long-term satellite TV bundling partner

Telecom Italia Tunes In Cisco for Web TV


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September 29, 2008 : Italian service provider is the first to use an 'Internet Streaming' flavor of Cisco's Content Delivery System that bakes in support for Adobe's popular Flash platform
Comment: Re: ATT-DISH Update - Jeff Baumgartner September 26, 2008
Comment: Re: ATT-DISH Update - Jeff Baumgartner September 26, 2008

The Friday Five


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September 26, 2008 : 4:30 PM -- Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week

OSS Company Considers Content


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September 26, 2008 : CSG is broadening its OSS and billing horizons with a Silverlight-powered platform aimed at studios, TV networks, and other partners that want to promote and sell videos via the Web
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CableLabs Chief Bows Out


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September 26, 2008 : Dr. Richard Green intends to retire late next year, meaning cable's R&D house will be looking for a new chief for the first time in its 20-year history

Sling Places Hi-Def Bet


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September 25, 2008 : 9:00 AM -- New place-shifting device can send hi-def streams outside the house – provided you have a relatively beefy 1.5 Mbit/s upstream connection

Whistling BICSI


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September 24, 2008 : 9:30 AM -- Former SCTE chief John Clark has found himself a new gig
Comment: ATT-DISH Update - Jeff Baumgartner September 24, 2008

FCC No Longer Inquiring About Interactive TV


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September 23, 2008 : Commission finally scuttles a fact-finding mission initially triggered by the AOL-Time Warner merger and the now-defunct AOLTV service that all six of you subscribed to in days of yore

Ike Aftermath


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September 23, 2008 : 1:40 PM -- Comcast and Insight report progress in the wake of last week's big storm
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CableCARD Update V


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September 22, 2008 : 5:15 PM -- 8.17 million and counting…but the market for one-way CableCARD products remains predictably stagnant

Comcast Details Net Management Moves


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September 22, 2008 : MSO hits FCC deadline to supply technical details about its new network management system and explain how Comcast expects to deploy it across the board by year's end

TI Flexes Docsis 3.0 Muscle


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September 12, 2008 : Texas Instruments' 8-channel Docsis 3.0 chipset has the urge to converge, capable of piping in super-fast Internet services and serving as a conduit for legacy cable video and broadband-fueled IPTV fare

Charter Talks Docsis Costs


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September 11, 2008 : It's about $8 per household, says the CEO of Charter, which expects to deploy speedy Wideband in a couple of markets before year's end
Comment: Re: Openstream pricing? - Jeff Baumgartner September 11, 2008
Comment: BigBand Bump - Jeff Baumgartner September 11, 2008

RS-DVR Debut: 'Early Next Year'


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September 11, 2008 : Despite speculation that copyright case could head to Supreme Court, Cablevision COO says 'remote-storage' DVR will debut 'on campus' next week and as a commercial service sometime in early 2009

More Calls for Help


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September 11, 2008 : 11:05 AM -- The FCC reports on Wilmington

Cable Worried About 'White Space' Tech


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September 10, 2008 : NCTA urges FCC to consider studies showing that a new breed of wireless broadband devices can interfere with and 'wipe out' digital cable services

Concurrent Not in Comcast's VOD Future


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September 10, 2008 : The vendor's MediaHawk won't make it into Comcast's next-gen architecture but says growth prospects still abound

'Surgical' Strikes


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September 10, 2008 : 10:55 AM -- TWC reaffirms it will deploy Docsis 3.0 methodically
Comment: Re: Open TV - Jeff Baumgartner September 10, 2008

Comcast Doctoring Digital in Detroit


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September 9, 2008 : The MSO has started to reclaim analog spectrum in the Detroit area, creating space for bandwidth-eating services such as hi-def television

AT&T Launches Whole-Home DVR


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September 9, 2008 : Like Verizon, AT&T has beaten cable to the punch with a digital video-recording service that will be available across the U-verse universe by year's end
Comment: Marquez v. The Car - Jeff Baumgartner September 9, 2008

Calls for Help


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September 9, 2008 : 1:20 PM -- Lesson No. 1 from the early DTV transition in Wilmington: People procrastinate

BigBand Plays It Personal


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September 9, 2008 : BigBand is unveiling a new video processing platform that aims to help cable MSOs and telco TV operators evolve their networks to deliver 'unicast' streams to individual customers

Wilmington Flips the Digital Switch


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September 8, 2008 : Hurricane Hanna couldn't keep Wilmington from making the DTV transition 162 days ahead of everyone else, as the city's mayor and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin flipped the symbolic switch at high noon

The Symbolic Switch


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September 8, 2008 : 1:15 PM -- Wilmington, NC, flipped the DTV switch today – here's a pic

Digeo Update


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September 8, 2008 : 10:10 AM -- CEO says new HD-DVR box for cable MSO distribution is on track

Panasonic Plays With Live Ammo


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September 8, 2008 : At CEDIA, CE giant claims to be the first to demo a tru2way-enabled TV running off a live cable system

SeaChange Shows VOD Valor in Q2


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September 5, 2008 : Higher cable software and server spending helps video on demand and digital ad specialist score revenues and a profit that beat Wall Street expectations

And Now… We Wait


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September 5, 2008 : 10:30 AM -- Delay in the TiVo-Dish spat causes TiVo shares to dip

Martin 'Disappointed' in Comcast Appeal


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September 4, 2008 : 11:00 PM -- 'I give you Adelphia and this is the grief I get?'
Comment: Re: Digital TVs? - Jeff Baumgartner September 4, 2008

Comcast Strikes Back


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September 4, 2008 : MSO files an appeal that seeks to reverse an FCC order tied to Comcast's treatment of some P2P traffic, claiming the rules exceed the Commission's authority

FCC Details Small Cable DTV Exemption


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September 4, 2008 : Just-published order says systems with limited subscriber bases and plant capacity will get a reprieve from dual must-carry requirements -- except for systems owned by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, that is

Fancast Does Downloads


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September 4, 2008 : 11:50 AM -- In case you have a pile of cash to burn on rentals and buys, here's what you can load up on before hitting Comcast's 250 GB ceiling
Comment: Re: Digital TVs? - Jeff Baumgartner September 4, 2008

Cablevision Plays WiFi Card


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September 4, 2008 : Cablevision has completed the 'initial phase' of a WiFi installation that eventually will cover its entire cable footprint and offer free wireless Internet access to its cable modem customers
Comment: Re: Digital TVs? - Jeff Baumgartner September 3, 2008

Comcast's DTAs: Security Optional


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September 3, 2008 : The MSO's security-free digital terminal adapters could turn up a content protection option, but activating it could stir trouble with the FCC

Cox: We Didn't Start the Fire


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September 3, 2008 : 3:00 PM -- Counters report that blames it for starting one of the fires that raged in the San Diego area last year

DirecTV & TiVo to Play It Again


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September 3, 2008 : 10:25 AM -- Satco and DVR pioneer hope to make sweet hi-def music together... sometime in second half of 2009

Camiant Commissions New Bandwidth Cop


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September 3, 2008 : Vendor upgrades Universal Edge Resource Manager to support the on-demand architectures of the two largest US cable MSOs, Comcast and Time Warner Cable
Comment: Re: IPTV reality check - Jeff Baumgartner September 2, 2008