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MediaFLO Gearing Up For DTV Push By Todd Spangler - 11/30/2008
Minutes after hundreds of analog TV broadcasts across the U.S. flicker off the air in February, Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA will be ready to start pumping mobile-television feeds over the vacated spectrum as it hopes to add more than 40 cities to its footprint after the DTV switchover. More
Patent Office Lets TiVo Do The 'Time Warp' Again By Linda Moss - 01/14/2009
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine one of TiVo’s DVR “time warp” patents, one that company claims EchoStar is violating in contempt of a court order.
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ExerciseTV Fits New Carriage Deals By Linda Moss - 01/13/2009
ExerciseTV, the video-on-demand fitness service, has signed new distribution deals, including one with Verizon FiOS TV, that will add another 2 million subscribers to its footprint, officials said Tuesday.
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IFC On VOD Opens Wide By R. Thomas Umstead - 01/12/2009
IFC hopes to raise the curtain on its fledgling IFC In Theaters pay-per-view video-on-demand service with the debut later this month of the critically-acclaimed, Steven Soderbergh-produced independent film Che two weeks after its theatrical debut.
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Cisco To Take DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Over 300 Mbps By Todd Spangler - 01/12/2009
Cisco Systems is developing a cable modem that will use Broadcom’s recently announced DOCSIS 3.0 silicon to bond together eight downstream channels – letting cable providers, theoretically, pump Internet content down to subscribers at more than 300 Mbps.
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CES 2009: EchoStar’s SlingLoaded HD DVR Lauded By Linda Moss - 01/10/2009
EchoStar’s SlingLoaded 922 HD DVR, the first to incorporate Sling Media’s patented place-shifting technology, has won a “Best of CES” award from the editors of CNET, officials said Saturday.
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CES 2009: Comcast, TWC To Flip Tru2way Switch By July 1 By Todd Spangler - 01/10/2009
Las Vegas -- Comcast and Time Warner Cable executives said they’re on track to enable support for retail devices compatible with CableLabs' tru2way interactive TV specification across their footprints by July 1.
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CES 2009: LG Touts Streaming, Wireless HD, Mobile DTV By Glenn Dickson - 01/08/2009
Las Vegas -- Consumer electronics giant LG Electronics focused on new ways to get pictures to HDTV sets in the living room and some breakthrough mobile technologies at its annual press conference at the CES show here.
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BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News January 9, 2009 Checking Out 3-D TV
Las Vegas -- While the mood is a bit subdued at this year's CES, the industry's gadge... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News January 8, 2009 Dish Gets Slung
Las Vegas -- Dish Network has finally done what everyone expected it would do when ... More
Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
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