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News & Views Most Popular ITC to Investigate Rovi/TiVo Complaint Against Comcast By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/23/2019 Latest complaint at the International Trade Commission seeks to block imports of X1 set-tops, broadband gateway devices and associated software. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WOW & Philo Bundle Up By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Continuing a growing trend, WOW has become the latest cable operator to combine its broadband service with a skinny bundle OTT-TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Tests Aim to Disrupt the Economics of On-Location TV Production By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/14/2019 In tests with AT&T, LiveU will equip its portable video production backpacks with 5G, believing that the capabilities of the new network will drive down the costs of on-location news and sporting event coverage. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Subdued Cable Spending Hits Arris By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/10/2019 Arris is off to a sluggish start, but hopeful that business will pick up as operators bulk up on DOCSIS 3.1 network capacity and start to snap up customer premises equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) TiVo to Hew Its Products & Licensing Businesses Into Two By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/9/2019 But many big questions remain unanswered as company aims to complete the separation by mid-2020. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner As a follow-on, here are some bullet points from yesterday's earnings call,... Leading Lights Winners On Fire! By Light Reading, 5/8/2019 We invited our 2019 Leading Lights awards winners to share their thoughts with the Light Reading video crew. Here's what they had to say: Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Ups Zelesko to CTO, Stirling to Group Chief Product Officer at Sky By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/8/2019 Recent promotions are among other significant executive moves within Comcast's technology and product organizations. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Leading Lights 2019: The Winners By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 Find out which companies have taken home the 2019 Leading Lights Awards trophies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MobiTV's Bill Routt: Amazon to Stoke Pay-TV Partnerships With Fire TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/6/2019 MobiTV's president and COO says Amazon is 'really engaging' with plans to optimize and customize its streaming platform for the pay-TV operator market. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Buying Wireless Spectrum 'Not in the Cards' for Altice USA, CEO Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/2/2019 Altice USA laser-focused on planned launch of a mobile product, in partnership with Sprint this summer, CEO Dexter Goei says. Meanwhile, MSO sees video and broadband results improve in Q1. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter X1 Syndication Deal: A Remote Possibility? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/2/2019 Industry sources say it's extremely unlikely that Charter would do a full syndication deal for X1, but that Charter could be interested in adopting some specific features and capabilities of Comcast's video platform. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Caavo Cuts Pricing, Morphs Video Platform Into a Smart Home Hub By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Startup hopes to dive deeper into the mainstream by adding IoT management capabilities to a Control Center platform that can also unify the management and navigation of up to four TV-connected devices. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter in Talks About Licensing Comcast's X1 Platform By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/30/2019 CEO Tom Rutledge confirms that Charter's had discussions, but company currently remains committed to its own, next-gen video platform and interface. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner I'll have to ask around to get a better sense of when such talks took place... Harmonic CEO: We Want to Be No. 1 in Cable Virtualization, DAA By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/29/2019 Harmonic sees a big year ahead for its 'CableOS' platform and distributed access architecture deployments as vendor takes aim at a cable network market that's been led by Arris, Cisco and Casa Systems. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner At least one analyst doesn't share quite the same level of enthusiasm as Harmonic... TiVo Tunes In to Cable's IP Video Migration, Use of Android TV Boxes By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/29/2019 TiVo says it's gaining ground with its next-gen video platform even as some of the nation's Tier 2/3 cable ops look to play down pay-TV and avoid investing in next-gen platforms. Post a Comment \| Read (0) TiVo/Rovi Seeks to Block Comcast X1 Box, Broadband Gateway Imports By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/26/2019 New complaint at the International Trade Commission alleges that cable operator is infringing on six patents that also form basis of a recent lawsuit filed in a California court. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast's Mobile Sub Growth Slows, but Other Mobile Metrics Improve By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/25/2019 Xfinity Mobile adds 170,000 lines in Q1, extending the total to 1.4 million. Mobile-related revenues rose 24.4% while losses shrunk significantly. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T Loses 627K Video Subs in Q1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/24/2019 Losses in period include 83,000 for DirecTV Now, but company sees legacy TV declines slowing later in 2019 alongside improving results for its newly priced OTT video product. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ACE Stands By Case Linking Omniverse & Dragon Box By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/24/2019 Omniverse, the target of a copyright lawsuit, has argued that any comparison between it and Dragon Box is 'scandalous and immaterial' and has moved to strike it from the proceedings. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Cable/Video Product or Service By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/22/2019 Our shortlist for this Leading Lights category features eight solid contenders. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Jeff Baumgartner, 5/10/2019 9:13:28 AM TiVo to Hew Its Products & Licensing Businesses Into Two Re: Color from the TiVo call As a follow-on, here are some bullet points from yesterday's earnings call, per the Seeking Alpha transcript. -By separating out the IP licensing biz, TiVo believes it can take a "customer-first" strategy with its product... Jeff Baumgartner, 4/30/2019 3:27:47 PM Charter in Talks About Licensing Comcast's X1 Platform Re: Timing and depth of those discussions? I'll have to ask around to get a better sense of when such talks took place and if those discussions had a tinge of seriousness to them -- could be that Rutledge was just in the mood to be nice when asked about the potential... Jeff Baumgartner, 4/30/2019 1:25:26 PM Harmonic CEO: We Want to Be No. 1 in Cable Virtualization, DAA Re: A less bullish, more cautious view At least one analyst doesn't share quite the same level of enthusiasm as Harmonic does regarding CableOS momentum. George Notter, analyst with Jefferies, has a more cautious, less bullish view. "While we like the customer... Jeff Baumgartner, 4/22/2019 5:17:39 PM TiVo Fires Another Lawsuit at Comcast Re: Some interesting names among inventors in latest round of asserted patents As TiVo/Rovi has filed its own and acquired certain patents over the years, it's inevitable that some industry vets that are now associated with other companies in the industry would be among the inventors of intellectual... Jeff Baumgartner, 4/12/2019 3:19:56 PM Slideshow: NAB 2019 Re: Re: Proper sustenance Exactly! I'd like a side of bacon with my bacon, please! Kelsey Ziser, 4/12/2019 2:59:35 PM Slideshow: NAB 2019 Re: Proper sustenance p.6 - proper sustenance being bacon, bacon and bacon, right? Clifton K Morris, 4/10/2019 3:18:31 PM T-Mobile Launching 'TVision Home' Against Cable TV Re: Re: Analyst: Where's the disruption? I agree, Jeff. I stopped into a T-Mobile store in Longmont last December around the holidays. The store offered the service branded as Layer3. Premium channels were in line with cable (HBO was $20 a month), and there... Jeff Baumgartner, 4/10/2019 1:53:21 PM T-Mobile Launching 'TVision Home' Against Cable TV Re: Analyst: Where's the disruption? Color BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk unimpressed with T-Mobile's initial stab at rebranding/relaunching the Layer3 TV in-home pay-TV service. "16 months after buying Layer 3, T-Mobile announced a $100/month TV service that... Duh!, 4/5/2019 4:22:32 PM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: Re: History lesson Imagine this in a John Oliver rant. Jeff Baumgartner, 4/5/2019 11:54:58 AM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: Re: History lesson It's taken a long time, but this thing has come full circle. And that Continental reference goes waaaaay back. JB Duh!, 4/4/2019 7:01:25 PM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: History lesson Commscope spun out of Continental Cable, merged with Valtech, got bought out by MA/COM, who sold them to GI. GI split up and spun out Commscope. GI got acquired by Motorola and morphed into Motorola Connected Home. Carl... Alan Breznick, 3/27/2019 12:58:26 PM Enghouse Puts Up $42.1M for Video Tech Specialist Espial Re: Re: Steve Perlman & Rearden Steel to...Enghouse? You are not alone there, Jeff. There was plenty of dandruff flying at the investor conference yesterday. I think Enghouse has some serious 'splaining to do. Jeff Baumgartner, 3/27/2019 12:46:31 PM Enghouse Puts Up $42.1M for Video Tech Specialist Espial Re: Re: Steve Perlman & Rearden Steel to...Enghouse? Thanks, Alan. Does seem that they love them some M&A... just noticing that they have a page on their website dedicated to acquisitions. And for each division at the company, they like to highlight key acquisitions... Alan Breznick, 3/27/2019 10:39:41 AM Enghouse Puts Up $42.1M for Video Tech Specialist Espial Re: Re: Steve Perlman & Rearden Steel to...Enghouse? Well, as it turns out, the preso by Enghouse Chairman & CEO Stephen Sadler at the Scoriabank investment conference in Toronto yesterday was pretty much a bust. Although we are not allowed to report on what he actually said... Jeff Baumgartner, 3/26/2019 2:59:23 PM Enghouse Puts Up $42.1M for Video Tech Specialist Espial Re: Steve Perlman & Rearden Steel to...Enghouse? Still nothing back from Enghouse on their strategic plans on this one. Seems to me they are buying into a business they don't know or at least haven't been laser-focused focused on from what I can glean...and I can imagine... 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