Category Archives: Networking
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bandwidth Change of Fortune
In 1998, I worked for a company involved with cable companies in Poland. As part of my role at the time, I had to work with our IT teams there and in one key respect we had a major problem. The main headquarters in an University of Warsaw co located building was connected to the [...]
IBC2009 Informal Social Meetup
Are you in Amsterdam for IBC2009? at a loose end after all the vendor or customer meetings and want a relaxing drink in convivial surroundings? A number of Amsterdam bound and Amsterdam housed Digital TV professionals are going to be meeting up for an informal drink inside/outside (Weather dependent) of Hoopmans (http://www.hoopman.nl/hoopman.htm ) in Leidseplein, [...]
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 [...]
Looking uphill at the Next Generation
It is interesting from the UK perspective, getting a view of the next generation – even more so than what Virgin Media can provide. It certainly puts the Digital Britain 2Mbps at the bottom of the hill, particularly when you look at the upstream speed capability available in the Netherlands… I’m living in Almere. It’s [...]
CES – Broadband and Digital Technology
CES is happening in Las Vegas right now and a great many new announcements for products and services are being made. It is really worthwhile to keep up with what is going on there. Now we are not ‘doin the bloggin thing’ and blogging the show but you will notice that the News Headlines feed [...]
IBC2008 Audio Resources
Super fun bonus for DTV folks, there is a very good resource for those who could not attend the conference side of IBC – audio recordings in MP3 format of the sessions. You may lose a little from not having visuals, but this is nothing to be sniffed at. You can find these on http://qedsessions.mc.sideshow.com/ibc2008/session/. [...]
IBC2008 D-Day approaches
As mentioned earlier, I am travelling to IBC2008 in Amsterdam. My thoughts earlier were about IPTV breaking big time this year, and I think that is a given. The interesting thing will be whether this will be in the connected home sense. What I mean by this, is a full in-home/out-of-home multi-vendor, standards based ecology [...]