Tag: Content Providers (IPTV/Cable/Music)

In case you missed this today, some pretty interesting comments coming from the head of the largest cable company as to why his company has lost over a quarter of a million customers. Comcast is annually ranked among the worst customer service, they have bandwidth caps, don’t offer much extras to their customers, and charge an absurd amount of fees—but […]

Here’s a good writeup from the FCC’s meeting today, and good news that there’s still desire to improve (versus abandoning) CableCARD. Those include ensuring that operators support accessing switched digital video by retail devices, prohibiting box price discrimination, requiring the option of consumer self-installation of the cards, giving consumers information on the cost of retail vs. leased boxes, making it […]

There’s been so much news about the new GoogleTV box since they had their press showing this week, but I’ve been tentative to comment on anything until something more concrete came around. Here’s engadget’s details on it, and it’s much more in depth than what I’ve seen. I’ve been skeptical of the GoogleTV box since I first heard about it’s […]

Great article here in the NYTimes that covers how TV studios are having to seriously start evaluating how to distribute their show ratings in order to factor in DVR watching. It’s pretty impressive that some shows can have viewing spikes as high as 15-19%!! That’s amazing given the anticipation on some of these shows, but I think a lot of […]

Some interesting post-lunch news for you CableCARD fans…I’m not exactly clear what this will equate to though. NCTA said it was not suggesting "abandoning" support for those existing 20 million boxes. It argues that since the FCC has never said it was necessary for all leased devices to include the cards, and the 10 largest operators have deployed those 20 […]

It’s not often we post news from the Wall Street Journal, but this was smack on the front of the second section today and seemed worth sharing. I’m looking forward to seeing what Amazon can field for a subscription service. It’ll be intersting to see which appliances can connect to the service, and what content they can get on the […]

Now here’s one you might not have predicted (or maybe you did), Netflix’s costs on licensing streaming movie exceeds the bandwidth. NOW, the question that remains is, as the features of streaming and quality improve requiring more bandwidth, does it hit into their profits greater? According to its 10-K filing, Netflix spent $66 million in the second quarter 2010 to […]

Here’s a pretty candid interview with CEO of Revision3 (home of one of my favorite shows HDNation), and I couldn’t help but post this after seeing this quote below. I remember making the exact same suggestion at the MVP Summit at Microsoft a few years ago…good to know I wasn’t alone with my suggestion, ashame it has yet to develop […]

Some really interesting stuff here Ben gathers from the recent meeting surrounding the evolution of Cable Card. It’s crazy to see all these big companies fighting for their own rights. Here’s to hoping that whatever wins out is best for the consumer and not the MSO only.   To sum it up the consumer electronics companies make suggestions for an […]