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by martino on April 28, 2005
At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cablevision COO, Tom Rutledge, confirmed once again that their respective compan...
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by martino on April 27, 2005
Much of the news in advertising and digital television revolves around the impact of the digital video recorder (DVR). Here is the financial report of just one (albeit a large one) manufacturer. Note ...
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by martino on April 26, 2005
Gotuit Media Corp. has developed a product, called "Gotuit On Demand," that combines segment metadata with VOD content. This is a fancy way of saying that viewers can use their remote contro...
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by martino on April 25, 2005
A major theme on this blog is that the digital media revolution changes many of the rules of business. Earlier, I sketched out a case that on-demand television advertising could grow as large as Inter...
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by martino on April 24, 2005
One of the technology drivers behind the digital media revolution is plentiful disk space that is always getting faster and cheaper. Want more evidence of that? Look to a company called InPhase who de...
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IPTV
by martino on April 23, 2005
You might have heard about the Moxi Media Centers in connection with digital television. This Linux-based technology allows consumers to store, access and manage a variety of entertainment content -- ...
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IPTV
by martino on April 23, 2005
I have been meaning to write about business models for video on demand (VOD) and internet protocol television (IPTV) for some time now. Since I have not yet, let me just say that I am sure that chris ...
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by martino on April 23, 2005
TVN Entertainment Corporation is one of the largest privately held digital content aggregation, management, distribution, and service companies. Originally created in 1988 to bring multi-channel Pay-P...
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by martino on April 22, 2005
Earlier this week, an article entitled "Internet Ad Spend Creeping up on TV" appeared on ClickZ.
"internet advertising revenue is growing at a faster clip than television advertising, w...
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by martino on April 21, 2005
Verizon took a step toward becoming a competitor to cable and satellite TV companies by unveiling a deal to carry all of NBC Universal's channels on a television service due this year. An article ...
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IPTV
by martino on April 18, 2005
Presently there is not all that much quality television content available to us from either cable video on demand (VOD) or internet protocol television (IPTV). It seems logical that over the next fi...
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by martino on April 16, 2005
Someday, ads will find their way into (or around) video on demand (VOD) or internet protocol television (IPTV) or digital video recorders (DVR). These non-linear television vehicles are also equipped ...
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by martino on April 16, 2005
Interactive television may finally flourish amid the long-promised convergence of communications technologies, says Barry Schuler, the former chief executive of AOL. Barry Schuler writes on "What...
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by martino on April 14, 2005
There really is no limit to the ways one can rationalize a topic when facing an ugly reality. Take for instance an article in today's Wall Street Journal entitled Networks Take On the Time Machine...
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IPTV
by martino on April 13, 2005
I notice two articles that have come out in recents days. In the first, a company called Massive is building an ad network for in-game advertising. They are still testing the technology but announced ...
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IPTV
by martino on April 10, 2005
Kreatel Communications (a Swedish company) has unveiled home networking software for its IP set-top boxes. It is called Kreatel Home Media Access. The new software is designed to allow viewers to ac...
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Announcements
by martino on April 7, 2005
I was scanning an article in Broadcasting & Cable today called "A Guide to High-Def Highs." (sorry, subscription needed). While interesting for the topic it focused on (which networks ar...
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IPTV
by martino on April 6, 2005
Israel-based IPTV technology provider, BitBand, says that Atlas Group-subsidiary, Atlas Interactive, has chosen its VOD technologies for a large-scale deployment of IPTV on the networks of an undisc...
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by martino on April 6, 2005
On March 8th, Mexican cable operator, Cablevisi�n (note: the latter is not related to the US MSO of virtually the same name; it is a subsidiary of Mexico's Grupo Televisa), began commercial deploy...
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IPTV
by martino on April 5, 2005
Yesterday, I drove up to the NCTA in San Francisco to see how vendors are positioning themselves in television this year. As you might expect, IPTV-oriented companies are better represented. I also ...
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by martino on April 4, 2005
Here we have another potential provider of conent for IPTV and VOD. It would seem that businesses that have a plan that can reward Viacom with a revenue stream just might get access to it.
This blur...
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by martino on April 4, 2005
Here is a little news item:
TiVo has begun testing a new advertising technology, designed to counteract the ad-skipping that its service allows. The technology, which is initially being tested on a s...
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IPTV
by martino on April 1, 2005
One IPTV topic that I plan on writing extensively about isP2P file sharing technology -- particularly BitTorrent. It is not important to debate whether you agree (or not) that P2P should officiall...
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IPTV
by martino on April 1, 2005
Late last year, SBC announced that it was going to invest $5 billion in building out an IPTV infrastructure. I know that it was a major milestone (even if only psychological) because that was the dema...
