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Cable’s About-Face on à la carte 29 Sep 2011 | 02:19 am
Reuters is reporting that cable operators are working on a plan to allow customers to purchase channels on an individual basis, also known as à la carte. This represents a 180 degree change in strate...
Are the stars aligning for Smart Home Applications? Moves by Verizon and AT&T point that way 4 May 2011 | 08:29 am
At this year’s CES, we said that 2011 would the year of the Smart Home Applications. To be sure, tablets took the forefront at the show, but the “smart home” could not be ignored. We estimated the US ...
Is the Dumb Pipe a Smart Move for Cable? 29 Apr 2011 | 08:14 am
The past two years have been tough on Pay Cable TV. In 2010 alone, the industry saw over two million video subscribers drop their subscriptions. While certainly not great news, there was a silver lini...
Netflix Surpasses Comcast: Does Cable Have a Charlie Sheen Problem? 26 Apr 2011 | 08:15 am
Netflix today reported 23.6 million subscribers in Q1’11, surpassing Comcast, the number one Cable operator in the US. This represents a major turning point for so-called “Over the Top” (OTT) distribu...
Cisco’s New Strategy and the Flip Flop 13 Apr 2011 | 08:18 am
Cisco today announced a “comprehensive plan” to restructure its operations—pulling out completely from certain segments of its consumer offerings and refocusing efforts on five key priorities. This sh...
How Japan’s Sun Will Rise Again 16 Mar 2011 | 12:18 pm
I spent several years of my impressionable twenties living and teaching public school in remote and rural Iwate, Japan –the very region that has sustained much of the tsunami and earthquake damage ove...
Can Comcast Put The Sizzle Back in 3DTV? Sure, But Who Will Pay? 19 Feb 2011 | 07:44 am
Followers of the industry will no doubt recall the unstoppable buzz at the 2010 CES Show in Las Vegas, where the story was 3DTV, and how it was poised to overtake the American living room. In the ensu...
NBCU-Comcast Merger: Sweetheart Deal or Regulatory Shakedown? 31 Jan 2011 | 03:14 pm
The FCC’s recent approval, by a 4-1 margin, of the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal effectively transforms the nation’s biggest cable company into its largest media company as well. The $30 bi...
Dead Skunks, Yellow Lines, and Net Neutrality 22 Dec 2010 | 08:45 am
The only thing in the middle of the road are dead skunks and yellow lines Or so goes the Texas adage. Today’s 3-2 FCC vote on rules pertaining to so-called “Net Neutrality” may once again prove that...
Cord Cutting: Cable’s #1 Yes Man Gets it Wrong, Again. 29 Oct 2010 | 02:17 pm
With Comcast alone hemorrhaging over 600,000 subscribers since January, and the overall industry faring hardly better, cord cutting doubters have had no choice but to change their respective tunes. C...
