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It’s difficult to give up on something that’s been good to you, be it a nice pair of Levis or a great old car. But moving on, at least to some degree, is what the telephone industry is facing as its T1 business slows in favor of carrier Ethernet. Continue reading
OK. If you are lucky enough to live in the Hoosier state, you have a bounty of good fortune. A perennially good football team (despite a not-so-smart coach), the Indy 500, John Mellencamp, Farm Aid, the occasional tornado (admit it … Continue reading
So this question knocked me out: “Why do you have ‘Broadband’ in your title if you’re a cable telecom website? Broadband isn’t cable. Broadband is telephony.” Uhhh…ok…. Continue reading
A generation of high end televisions incorporating tru2way would have constituted a big step toward eliminating set-top boxes and more widely disseminating consistent electronic program guides and other applications. For the most part, the TV guys didn’t play along… Continue reading
The X-Men, X-Rays, The X-Factor, Generation X, X (the band for those of you who went to college in the eighties), XTC (ditto), Racer X (who, incidentally, was so much cooler than Speed Racer), X marks the spot. And now…xfinity or XFINITY. Continue reading
EBIF.
What?
Here I am, walking around the show floor at NCTA, minding my own business, when EBIF rears its little profitable head. What the hell is EBIF? It practically ran up and bit me on the leg. I just finished learning about QAM, DOCSIS-with-a dot-not a point, GPON, FTTX, FTTH, QoE, QoS, yada yada. Now this one sounds just as important. Continue reading
Cable operators, programmers, developers and vendors are resourceful. That point was driven home – again – by the research that I’ve done during the past week or so on EBIF, the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format. Even a few years … Continue reading
The focus on 3D at last week’s Cable Show in Los Angeles was reminiscent of the mid 1990s, when high definition was the next big thing. The entire ecosystem — set vendors, application developers, programmers, cable operators and others — want 3D to have the same happy fate as HD. Despite the superficial similarities, however, today’s far more complex world means that such success is no slam dunk. Continue reading
You have competition, sir. My 10-year-old son is not your normal kid. Granted he likes football (Redskins thankfully) doesn’t like girls, loves video games, hates homework, and has every Lego toy imaginable. And when he had to present who his … Continue reading
Acronyms combined with tweet-language – can it get any better? Oh yes it can. After what seemed to be a fairly light afternoon on Tuesday, the Cable Show roared on Wednesday with a packed house – and the big buzz – from one end of the floor to the other, was 3D. Continue reading
It’s a pleasure to again be fully engaged with the cable industry after many years of sporadic coverage. Absolutely no industry is as fun and as quirky as cable, which has managed to maintain a small town feel even as … Continue reading
…and it all starts next week. And it will go by in a flash. Possibly in 3DTV… Many people have wondered about the dividing of annual cable trade shows into two big events – Cable Connects Spring and Cable Connects Fall. And while I cover mostly the vendor community in this blog, I have seen the pros and cons. Continue reading
Writers. I give them credit. Making a living out of words – and crafted words at that – is an enviable living. One that I doubt I could ever do. Oftentimes it’s a tough gig, and when you are a journalist specializing in a specific vertical discipline like sports, business, or technology, it can get downright ruthless. Continue reading
