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The cable industry has a long history with program guides. The challenges gradually grew during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s as the industry added channels and VOD offerings to the point that presenting a linear scroll of what was … Continue reading
Multiscreen service initiatives will have a profound impact on cable operators’ operational support system/business support system (OSS/BSS) infrastructures, according to experts. To date, the industry has operated with a more or less hardwired and direct tie between the BSS and … Continue reading
There has been news from three companies — Digital Rapids, Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) and Telestream — on the transcoding front. That’s important: Transcoding is the heart and soul of cable operators’ multiscreen activities. Transcoding is nothing new. Indeed, it long has … Continue reading
Comcast’s Xfinity initiative has changed in a subtle but significant way. Xfinity started as a home security business. Gradually, however, its vision and mandate broadened. Now, the company is threading the potentially lucrative needle of home security and home automation. … Continue reading
Optimum Lightpath positions its new uncompressed video service as a logical step in the company’s strategy of catering to companies in demanding verticals in the tough New York City metro area. More specifically, the company’s Managed Video Services now will … Continue reading
tru2way is alive and well. It just isn’t being used in precisely the way it was intended. The key to succeeding in a mercurial environment is the ability to adapt, and tru2way is showing itself to be extremely flexible. The … Continue reading
With perhaps one exception, the key technical issues related to the Enhanced Binary Interchange Format — EBIF — have more or less been settled. Experts say that the technology has firmly entered the deployment phase and that it is getting … Continue reading
The goal — monetizing advanced advertising — is clear. That’s about all that is clear, however. Philip Knightbridge, CTO and Fellow at IBB Consulting, suggested that the mercurial evolution of this promising revenue generator will test cable operators. A good … Continue reading
The mechanics of getting the right spot to the right device at the right time are tremendously tricky. The task involves stringing together a long list of devices that implement standards under the SCTE 130 banner. Essentially, there are five … Continue reading
The stickiest technical questions are solved or on their way to a solution. But some legal and contractual issues remain. The goal is to not let these become obstacles. Continue reading
The next generation of advertising won’t do a couple of things: Replace linear advertising or roll out very quickly. Operators and vendors who think things through will create more efficient and profitable platforms. Continue reading
Cable television operators should take solace — actually, a good deal of solace — from a report released this week by Juniper Research, an organization based in Great Britain. The study concludes that by the year 2014, average monthly viewing … Continue reading
The opportunities presented to the cable TV industry by advanced advertising are huge and exciting: Suddenly, it is becoming possible to reach targeted demographics on nearly a one-to-one basis. The viewers of those ads can be on any device and … Continue reading
