Category Archives: Consumer Device
Apple TV and Fairplay Blockage
Well Apple has given us that one more thing, the new improved Apple TV, However this has caused me to think about one of the less understood aspects of the Apple ecosystem… Fairplay – Apple’s DRM system. Well what caused me to think about this ‘almost’ hidden DRM? Well what Fairplay gives you is the [...]
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 [...]
Revolution of Evolution
There was once a time (once being even today in some product companies), when companies would spend two to three years on making a new product. That was the competitive environment back in the day. These days though products are developed in much less time than that, with new product being produced at least every [...]
Google TV… will it succeed?
Is Google TV going to be the Google Mail or the Google Buzz? – that is success or fail by the way Will it have mass appeal?
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 [...]
iPad and the effect on the Digital Experience
I have written in the past about mobile devices, and now we have the launch of what the Apple faithfull believe to be the ultimate mobile device – the iPad. This is a very cool device by all accounts, and it could be a game changing device for the home digital experience… except for the [...]
Apple Spreading out of its’ Orchard?
There is some speculation based on the flimsiest of a job posting (Apple To Bring iPhone OS To New Gadgets) that Apple could be looking to expand beyond the iPad device, as that being a first step beyond the phone and handheld information device world – perhaps into the mainstream TV world. Apple have had [...]
The Cable Challenge
This week I have been returning to old thoughts about how things have changed over the last 10 years and what I see today as the rising challenge of Digital Terrestrial/Satellite combined with an Internet return path on Hybrid boxes. The decade started with Digital promise as wider scale EuroDOCSIS acceptance gave way to wider [...]
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 [...]
CES and All New Things
As I sit here (not at CES and not having been there), it seems that all the news coming out of CES is talking about 3D TV, eBooks and tablet computers. I find the industry preoccupation with 3D rather disappointing, and most of my industry technical colleagues are similarly underwhelmed, notably because even as being [...]