Tag Archives: Cable
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 [...]
Does the pipe really matter?
Every day and every week, people in the TV technology industry talk about Pay TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, OTT, Internet TV, Connected TV and all sorts of technical delivery platforms for content. We go to conferences about it where there is much discussion about how one is better than the other because of the special [...]
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.
Salutary Lesson for BSkyB
Whilst reading an update about Unitymedia, I found this quote regarding the affect of losing top flight football rights on a DTV operator. “Since Sky Deutschland has been the exclusive rights holder again, subscriber numbers have dropped considerably. At the end of March, arenaSAT only had 51,000 subscribers – a year ago it still had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]