Category: Viodi View
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Obscenity on ABC, Advertising on PBS, H.R. 6320 – Regulation of Broadband TV on the Horizon?
The inspiration for this article was a decision a few months ago by the FCC to slap a huge fine on ABC Affiliates for violating obscenity rules in airing an episode of “NYPD”. The FCC Order, although extremely descriptive about the nudity, sparked my curiosity. "………The camera shot includes a full view of her buttocks…
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Signs of the Video Times
The signs of the changing video landscape were literally signs in the case of these photos I snapped yesterday. The demise of Bradley Video, a once strong independent video store in Silicon Valley, is an indication that the traditional brick and mortar approach to renting and selling videos is quickly being substituted for other means of…
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Slightly Off the Beaten Path
I remember clear as yesterday a conversation I had with an unassuming World War II veteran sometime in the late 1990s. We were at an Atlanta steakhouse during one of the many Supercomms (e.g. the predecessor to NXTcomm) in that fair city. He explained to me how he was part of a commissioning crew on a submarine…
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WiMAX Patent Pool Planned by Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Alcatel-Lucent and Clearwire
Computerworld and the WSJ articles state that several WiMAX stakeholders will jointly license patents that cover WiMAX technology in an attempt to limit royalty rates that could deter customers from using it. The group of six, now known as the Open Patent Alliance (OPA), wants to make IPR costs predictable so that the WiMAX ecosystem will grow.…
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Appointment for an On-Demand Webinar
Avail Media is sponsoring and hosting a webinar regarding on-demand content on Thursday, June 12th at 2 PM EDT. Avail’s acquisition of ViewNow late last year made them the only supplier of both linear and on-demand content to providers of IPTV. What makes this webinar interesting is that Avail will be sharing the stage with one of…
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2nd Update on WiMAX in India article
July 15, 2008 update: More disputes threaten to delay India’s WiMAX goldrush, by Caroline Gabriel India is absolutely critical to the fortunes of WiMAX, and the level of uptake in the huge nation will help decide how prominent a position 802.16e takes in the overall wireless landscape in the next decade. There are many reasons…