Category: Content
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Second Screen Apps Enhance Viewing Experience & Offer Additional Capabilities – TVNEXT 2012 Conference Highlights
Introduction: There were many interesting exhibits, presentations and panel sessions at the 6th annual TVNEXT conference, held October 10-11th in Santa Clara, CA. Some that stood out and were particularly enlightening to this author: Rise of the NexGen TV Operator (impact of cloud-based services, over-the-top content delivery, multi-screen entertainment, virtual MVPDs and migration to all-IP…
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US ITC – Don’t Turn Out the Lights [Opinion]
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have been a 50 year overnight success. One supplier now threatens that progress, at least in the niche of videography and perhaps beyond, given the broad nature of its patents. Anyone involved in local content should take a minute to read this, as the number of choices of LED lights for…
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Olympusat Aims to Be YouTube for the Enterprise
Olympusat Holdings, a long time provider of video distribution for family, faith, speciality and Spanish-language cable networks, recently announced that it is expanding its focus to include the enterprise market via its Olympusat Telecom division. Through a mix of partnerships that cover content ingest, asset management, encoding, ad insertion, hosting, distribution and last mile access, Olympusat Telecom…
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Top US Telcos Reject Broadband Connect America Funding
Ten of the nation’s largest carriers were invited to participate in the Connect America Funding program, offered by the Federal Communications Commission. The fund would pay carriers $775 per broadband line deployed to an unserved home within its territory up to a specific dollar level (which varies from one carrier to another). Seven of the 10…
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Give Us Visibility
With over 650 telecommunications’ operators behind last week’s letter that was sent to the FCC and their elected representatives, the rural telecom industry is as united as it ever has been. In the words of the letter, “This letter is…clear and unambiguous notice of our collective concerns with the ‘regression analysis’ based caps on Universal…
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Xfinity on the Xbox – Sounds Xciting, but….
The new Xfinity Xbox application sounds exciting, but may be more valuable as a marketing channel Xcitement abounded the other night as I downloaded the new Xfinity for Xbox application. Having recently authored a report on multiscreen video, I have waited for this app. Other than forgetting my user name, operation was simple enough and I…