STB Bugs

I have worked with a number of clients in the delivery of new STB code and new STBs over my career. I have prided myself that I could work a team to identify bugs that ultimately would be seen as customer defects (the difference between bugs and defects is something worthy of an entire post in itself) and then work out the best resolution and then get it implemented. However I would limit myself to dealing only with a certain type of bug and not real live ones.

Man, those Greedy Cable Companies have some nerve, am I right? Always showing up late, charging us for channels we dont want, under-delivering on broadband speeds. But at least theyre not infesting our homes with bugs! Oh, wait.

via Mans Comcast Box Floods Home with Cockroaches.

Then again, a resolution is clear and simple to these bugs compared to the average timing issue.

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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 the masthead – see the ‘News Headlines in Detail‘ option, or for the information deficient amongst us you can subscribe to the RSS feed via the same page.

Give it a try and get access to the best of the best sites and content out there… who knows you may actually start visiting these great sites directly yourself!

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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/. All you have to do is download them and play them back, either on your PC or your other favourit portable device. If you want, you can also go back to IBC2007 as the same sort of content is available for then.

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Long term testing….

Sometimes, it just takes that long to find out.:-)

For those who do not want to wait for yourself.

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Why you should never test on a live production system

Webhosting company Dreamhost discovered the hard way that you should not test on live systems. The overcharge of $7.5M to its customers will cause some loss of customers, some great annoyance and knowing the compensation culture in the US, a lawsuit of some sort.

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