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06/23/2009
Canoe Promotes Four Advertising Interfaces
With the economy down, so too are advertising budgets, making advanced advertising even more enticing for cable operators seeking to offer more bang for the decreasing buck. Progress is being made on the MSO level and nationally with specifications and Canoe Ventures. Last week, during a webcast sponsored by Communications Technology, Arthur Orduna, Canoe’s CTO, […]
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06/22/2009
Comcast Readies IPv6
Comcast showed its support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in a meeting of the North American Network Operators Group last week in Philadelphia. NANOG is an educational and operational forum for Internet service providers (ISPs). It was formed in 1994, having evolved from the regional tech meetings of NSFNET, the pioneering National Science Foundation-backed […]
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06/22/2009
SCTE Marks 40th Anniversary
The SCTE celebrates its 40th anniversary today. But the SCTE is more focused on the future than the past, according to the organization’s President and CEO Mark Dzuban. Speaking at a meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the SCTE last week, Dzuban said his mission at the SCTE is to "drive a renaissance from […]
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06/18/2009
LG Intros TVs With Built-in Netflix Streaming
Consumer electronics maker LG has expanded its relationship with DVD rental service Netflix, introducing two new lines of HDTVs that include built-in support for Netflix’s Web-based video streaming service. The models, first announced at CES in January, include 47-inch LCD and 50-inch plasma sets that are available now as well as 42- and 60-inch versions […]
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06/17/2009
Partners Aim for Web Video on UK Set-Tops
An Internet search engine company that specializes in video searches, blinkx, has partnered with a British interactive service provider, Miniweb, to bring Internet video to set-top boxes. (For more on Internet video, click here.) San Francisco/London-based blinkx is "probably the biggest video search engine that you’ve never heard of," said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of blinkx. […]
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06/16/2009
Denser QAM Chip Costs Less
BroadLogic, a San Jose, CA, maker of video-processing semiconductors, has announced an ultra-dense quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) chip for video, voice and data transport. The TeraQAM chip will be available in 16-channel and 32-channel versions, thus doubling and quadrupling QAM chip density from the standard eight-channel chip most commonly shipped today. The going rate for […]