Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
FCC to Investigate Skyrocketing Cable TV Rates, Ignores Telcos
Have you noticed that video rates have been going up at a painful rate? FCC Chair Kevin “I love Ma Bell” Martin did and he wants answers. Despite also naming Verizon in the inquiry, it’s pretty obvious that cable is the real target. The focus is on the move of more and more channels out [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Courts Give Thumbs Up to Cablevision’s Network DVR
Cablevision was onto something awesome when they decided to do a DVR without additional hardware in your home, instead recording and playing back the streams directly from their headend with no equipment for you to maintain. Now the courts have decided that content providers are up in the night with their claims that such technology [...]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The Need for Speed: Comcast’s Plans to Squeeze More Bandwidth From Aging Copper
In the quest to prepare for DOCSIS 3.0 without undertaking the necessary step of replacing aging coax with fiber, Comcast has been playing around with several solutions designed to postpone the inevitable and squeeze more bandwidth from their copper turnip. The end result? Freeing up anywhere from 25% to 50% of their available bandwidth on [...]
