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God bless Sunday NFL ads for giving me blog fodder. As I watched the dozens of ads for Sprint, Verizon, Comcast, Cox and other voice/video/data services, one fairly new element kept popping up: Throttled speeds. In one Sprint commercial, they … Continue reading
I certainly can’t figure it out. I really can’t. I was speaking with my friend Karlin the other day and asking her why, as an MIT engineering grad and a successful engineer for a Navy contractor, she got into engineering. … Continue reading
Money is flowing again. Companies in the US are rubbing their hands over some cash hoards accumulated in the past few years – $963 billion according to Standard & Poor’s, and the tap looks like its starting to flow. Forget the talk about unemployment, the deficit, etc. Let’s talk about what it means for cable. Continue reading
A year after we launched BTR, our brain trust looked at the industry and came to the realization that there really was no tangible recognition program for outstanding and technically innovative products. While there has always been several publications – both print and online – serving this market, it was a niche that we felt needed to be filled. So, in 2005 we launched BTR’s (then-BGR’s) Diamond Technology Reviews. Continue reading
Back in “the day” (which was a Thursday for those of you asking), pre-2000, there were four key industry events in my world … two that basically covered programming and ops, and two that covered technology. Like all trade shows … Continue reading
And now, ladies and gentlemen, London, Tim’s trusty bulldog, lays down his take on VOD advertising. Continue reading
Two weeks ago during my son’s spring break, Comcast was making repairs on my street and our service went out. Now if you are one of the three people who read my blog regularly, you may remember the sterling service … Continue reading
The next few years in the telecom industry? Whack, as the kids say. And they may be right. Could even be another Wild West as vendors, operators, content providers and OTT providers all scramble to gain, recapture or just get a toehold in the emerging three-screen (3S) market. Continue reading
This will be a short blog because when I’m a bit peeved, I tend to clam up. To wit, this whole Flash thing, which doesn’t run on my Apple devices, is really getting me tweaked. Continue reading
Many companies in the broadband industry are directly involved in either delivering, compressing, modulating, demodulating or testing and monitoring video signals. Video, you might say, is their lifeblood. They put hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars into research and development. But I still don’t get it. Continue reading
We are seeing a new industry emerge. And that is the any-content-to-any-device, or what we’re calling the three-screens market. We’ll just call it 3S. Let us be the first. Continue reading
Americans reportedly now have around eight more hours a week of leisure time than in the past. But is that time mostly spent with the Internet, email, Google, Google Earth, Facebook, Twitter, etc.? Is there a way to escape and get “real” leisure time in our hyper-connected world? Continue reading
When it comes to apps for iPad, who is truly winning? Comcast XFINITY or Verizon FiOS? Here’s one take from a consumer’s point of view. Continue reading
