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  • The Bridge Between the Cable Past & the Broadband Future – #Summit23

    The Bridge Between the Cable Past & the Broadband Future – #Summit23

    Pat Thompson has lived the future. When she was told that “Women don’t do that,” she persisted and became the first woman broker in the still nascent cable television industry. It was an improbable career change for a single mother of three from Montana who had settled in Colorado only a few years earlier with…

  • Viodi View – 04/30/22

    Viodi View – 04/30/22

    Viodi finally has liftoff with the purchase of a drone and associated time investment into FAA Part 107 certification. Part 107 certification is necessary for the commercial use (which can include non-revenue work) of the amazing videos this autonomous flying camera captures. It may feel odd to see things (especially oneself – YouTube) from a…

  • Viodi View – 02/08/20

    Viodi View – 02/08/20

    Cable TV Innovation Leads to Wi-Fi Leads to Unexpected Innovation It was maybe 1983 when one of the smartest, most practical and knowledgeable analog/RF engineers I have ever known told me that lasers couldn’t be made linear enough to be directly modulated by the RF spectrum. The implications for this were huge in that it…

  • 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 – 07/24/14

    Viodi View – 07/24/14

    Managed Broadband TV – A Decade Old Overnight Success It’s always fun to see industry friends face-to-face and last week’s NTCA Southeast Regional Meeting in Savannah, GA was the perfect venue for catching up with folks I hadn’t seen in a while. It was an honor to moderate a tech talk panel on the topic of video services. This video…

  • Time Warner Cable Media joins Comcast in adding AT&T U-Verse to Ad Platform; U-Verse Survey!

    Time Warner Cable Media, the cable operator’s ad sales division,  is the second MSO in recent weeks to strike a deal with AT&T  to have the latter’s U-Verse TV service linked to the cableco’s fixed scheduling network.  Specifically, AT&T’s U-Verse TV service is being incorporated into Time Warner Cable’s “fixed scheduling network grids” in 15 markets…