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Parks Associates will be hosting the workshop Business Cases for Emerging Video Services at TelcoTV 2008 on November 11. TelcoTV , November 11-13, the Anaheim Convention Center, is the premier event for the exploration of a comprehensive entertainment convergence strategy. The workshop addresses the business case for emerging video services, including multichannel television and broadband video. Parks Associates forecasts that by 2012, almost 33 million U.S. households will...

Ad Age ran an interesting article today, Public Might Cut Cord on Landlines, Cable TV. The article posed the hypothetical question, “If you could keep only one thing out of a list that included your phone (home or mobile), your TV, or your computer and Internet connection, what would it be?” According to the article, the implications of the current economy and subsequent consumer cutbacks is on the minds of marketers, telecoms, ad agencies, and media companies. Verizon is...

Samsung's been busy this month. I just caught this press release from October 15 where Samsung and DivX announced a multiyear agreement to add high-quality DivX® video playback to a number of Samsung digital television models. The DivX Certified Samsung devices are expected to be available in worldwide markets beginning in early 2009, and will be able to playback DivX media files directly via USB slots or via Ethernet connection certified by DLNA.

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...

Apple announced on Thursday that all four major TV networks are offering downloads in high-definition format. They also announced that more than 200 million TV episodes have been sold through the iTunes Store. Our research ( TV 2.0: The Consumer Perspective ) finds that 2% of broadband users are paying monthly to download TV shows, averaging 3.4 downloads per month.

Amazon.com has now encrypted all movies and TV shows coming through Adobe's servers to fix the problem of "catching," which allowed users to copy unencrypted content.

Amazon.com has now encrypted all movies and TV shows coming through Adobe's servers to fix the problem of "catching," which allowed users to copy unencrypted content.

I did get that time over the weekend to finish the installation and configuration of the ZVBox (chronicled in last week's post). The half-hour that I allotted turned into an hour-and-a-half, but part of that was getting back under my desk to try some cable management with some velcro ties that I had purchased from RadioShack. I got the ZVBox to work through a coax splitter, and there was rejoicing when I got the image up on the TV in the living room. Then, the only other big...