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The FCC finally issued an order for operators requesting waivers with regards to separable security. The 25+ operators requesting one of the waivers were given until February 17th, 2009 to move to an all-digital system. The interesting thing is that IPTV operators, although inherently all-digital, are going to have to offer a separable security solution…
Although the title of iHollywood’s conference this week was, the Digital Living Room, The Virtual Living Room would have an equally good description. A common theme throughout the show was the idea of portability and that consumers want to be able to consume entertainment on their own terms; wherever they are and whatever time it is. OK,…
It’s 11 AM on Tuesday, 3/18 and I still haven’t made it to the VON conference, but it looks like the really big news is from the show’s organizer, Jeff Pulver. He has co-founded a company, Prime Time Rewind, with Amit Shafrir which serves to aggregate network content that is already out available on the…
Some real good tips for embedding higher quality YouTube videos on a web site can be found at this link: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Watch_Higher_Quality_YouTube_Videos There are several methods, but this one seems to be good for quickly modifying older posts Add &fmt=18 to the URL of the video and it will look for a higher resolution version, if…
Telling stories and using imagery to let people draw their own conclusions. This was one of the key messages given by Jim Gilmartin of Coming of Age at CalCom’s 2008 Annual Meeting in Monterey. He was speaking in the context of effective marketing to baby boomers and older customers. Read on to see what this picture has to…
One of the best things about the MTA conference is seeing friends, old and new. One person I did not catch up with is Gary Johnson of Paul Bunyan Telephone . He should have been there to accept his MTA Public Service Award. The irony is that the reason he was not there was the reason he won…
Abstract Promoted as the most important FCC auction in decades, it appears that the 700 MHz auction has been a failure on several fronts. We were promised private operator-public safety partnerships (for the D Block) along with a new nationwide wireless broadband network (Frontline Wireless’ initiative), open access for any device and any application (Google’s…
Back in the early days of commercial Video on Demand (circa 1999), when I was with the on-demand, Application Service Provider, DemandVideo, one of the benchmarks for our success was the demise of a video store. That is, we knew that if a video store went out of business because of what we were…