"set top" articles

Today, Motorola launched its remote device management for its IPTV set-tops. Motorola’s NBBS device management system will now enable service providers to accelerate the delivery of personal media experiences with new services, improved customer satisfaction and lower operational costs with fewer truck rolls. NBBS helps eliminate provisioning errors and customer frustration by automating the provisioning and management process for a wide range of devices with easy, zero-touch...

Yesterday, I attended the Advanced Advertising for Cable: Winning Back the Ad Dollar webinar hosted by Light Reading’s Cable Digital News. The event was sponsored by technology providers, ARRIS and Cisco Systems Inc. with the discussion lead by Paul Delzio, Director of Product Strategy at ARRIS and Philip Jacobs, Senior Engineering Manager of Cisco Systems Inc. The webinar was a call-to-action for the advancement of advanced cable advertising – addressability, interactivity,...

Yesterday, I attended the Advanced Advertising for Cable: Winning Back the Ad Dollar webinar hosted by Light Reading’s Cable Digital News. The event was sponsored by technology providers, ARRIS and Cisco Systems Inc. with the discussion lead by Paul Delzio, Director of Product Strategy at ARRIS and Philip Jacobs, Senior Engineering Manager of Cisco Systems Inc. The webinar was a call-to-action for the advancement of advanced cable advertising – addressability, interactivity,...

Video-on-demand may be cable’s best bet for improving customer satisfaction with services -- Cable television could see a mass migration away from its services, according to Parks Associates' TV 2.0: The Consumer Perspective , if providers do not improve their consistently low satisfaction ratings among subscribers. This new report reveals that subscribers to satellite television and telco/IPTV are significantly more likely to be satisfied with their services than both...

Motorola is giving KDDI one heck of a media server set-top box, according to a press release issued yesterday. The set-top will support KDDI's au BOX service. A big feature of the box is its ability to aggregate digital media (ripping music from CDs, ingesting video from personal video recorders, and accessing digital content from Web portals for purchase) and stream it to mobile phone handsets. The box is based on the KreaTV Application Platform, a software platform that Motorola...

Another good CNET article referencing Roku CEO Anthony Wood's comments that he'd like to allow the Roku box to bring streamed video to the TV from multiple sources and not just Netflix, as is the case today. Wired Magazine has a few more details on these comments. For $100, if I can access the Netflix Watch Instantly collection, plus get access to current and archived television shows (and I did get intrigued with old episodes of Battlestar Galactica on a recent trip when I...

Eric Kim from Intel's Digital Home Group today unveiled an application framework called the Widget Channel. It will bring structured Internet applications and content to the television, using widgets. The solution uses Yahoo's Widget Engine and core libraries, and brings many services to the TV, including content from Blockbuster, Disney-ABC, CBS Interactive, Cinequest, Joost, and Showtime. Kim also unveiled the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly codenamed "Canmore"),...

Yesterday's announcement from Widevine that CinemaNow has chosen its content protection solution in a multi-platform distribution strategy is the first of many expected announcements through the rest of the year that show the migration of Internet video and other applications from just a pure PC/portable multimedia player market. As we wrote last week, the development trends indicate that Internet video services are going to be common on all kinds of platforms and via all kinds of...