Category Archives: Cable
IBC comes around again… is this one about real IPTV?
Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile [...]
Cable Company Expansion
I had to post about this, as it is the second time I have heard people talk about possible purchase options for Virgin Media today. Who really would be in the running for such a thing? Four Reasons to Buy Virgin Media — Seeking Alpha.
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Anga Cable 2010
I found myself with a spare day in the week due to an interesting approach to public holidays by the Netherlands. With this I decided to take a day trip over to Cologne to take in a show that previously I had always found myself unable to attend – Anga 2010. This show is organised [...]
Industry Changing
Ten years ago, if you asked many chief executives of cable and satellite companies what industry they were in, most would have said TV. Those that were transitioning to MSOs, would say that they were in the Dual play or triple-play entertainment and communication services business. Today, I am not so sure that they would [...]
Electronic Content Guides coming next
The entertainment world has become a complex place compared to 20+ years ago. Back then the UK had 4 channels and the biggest challenge was in ensuring that you had an in house distribution feed for those terrestrial analogue channels, that you had remote control capability and that on at least one TV you had [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
Cooling of the IPTV Set-Top Market
The cooling of the IPTV set-top market as reported by Broadband TV News is an interesting development. IPTV set-top market is ‘cooling down’ : Broadband TV News. Much of the growth identified in the report was down to market launches which mop up the early adopters very easily. However, we have not seen the organic [...]
Server virtualization slims Microsoft Mediaroom model – FierceIPTV
It looks like after 10 years and much effort, that new server techniques and the massive dropping in server hardware costs may finally be making Microsoft TV an affordable solution for an operator. Server virtualization slims Microsoft Mediaroom model – FierceIPTV It used be said that the Microsoft solution needed football pitches of servers, but [...]