Tag: cable TV

  • Continuity of Experience at #NCTCWEC 2017

    Continuity of Experience at #NCTCWEC 2017

    “Continuity of experience” was a recurring theme at NCTC’s 2017 Winter Education Conference. Keynote speaker, Bruce Leichtman of LRG explained that this means creating user interfaces that transcend device, as well as making it easy for customers to discover and view content wherever and how they want. He emphasized that this means creating new ways…

  • Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Should smaller broadband operators even offer video, given all the marketplace and regulatory challenges? That’s a question I am looking forward to posing at a panel at next week’s NTCA TEF conference. This session should be interesting, given this week’s proposal to the FCC by INCOMPAS (PDF) that, as a condition for approval of the Charter/Time-Warner merger, a…

  • Viodi View – 08/09/13

    Viodi View – 08/09/13

    The moments of life blur together as the years speed by faster and faster. Travel tends to accelerate the blur, as the towns and conferences seem to melt into a collage of images and seem to be part of another life. The moments that standout are when those different paths intersect, like they did last…

  • In Memoriam:  John P. Messmer

    In Memoriam: John P. Messmer

    John Messmer had a passion for engineering. A Cal Tech graduate and someone 13 years my senior, I looked up to John. Messmer was never interested in money or material things. His passions were books and electronic device design. His seemingly contradictory anti-establishment and conservative viewpoints definitely provided me with a more nuanced view of…