Tektronix expanded its Sentry digital monitoring line with a new product – Sentry Assure – that multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) can use to evaluate compliance with legal requirements to prevent ads from getting louder than surrounding programs. MVPDs will have about a year to implement technology to comply with the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation […]
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Comcast snags Emmy for iPad app
Comcast was in an elite group when it recently scored an engineering Emmy for its Xfinity TV iPad app. Comcast’s Charlie Herrin, senior vice president of product development and technology, was on hand to pick up the Emmy engineering award. “It was an honor to have been selected, and certainly humbling. … Lots of TV […]
Time Warner Cable beefs up iPad lineup with 37 Spanish channels
Time Warner Cable has bolstered programming for its iPad app with the addition of 37 Spanish-language channels. Some of the new Spanish channels that are now available on the TWCable TV app include Discovery Español, CNN Español, Boomerang Español, Caracol and Disney XD Español. The new networks will join the five Spanish-language channels already available […]
Google angling to enter MVPD biz
Google is laying the groundwork to start distributing video, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company has long talked about being in the TV business. The issue was whether it would voluntarily restrict itself to over-the-top (OTT) content or attempt to compete with multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). If the latter, […]
Let’s Get Progressive With Multi-Screen De-Interlacing
Progressive TVs, PCs, tablets and smartphones are here to stay. In the old days, “video display” used to mean “the TV” – more specifically, an analog input standard-definition TV. But that has all changed now. Today’s new televisions are digital, and video viewing is becoming more popular on PCs, tablets and smartphones, creating a broader […]
Multi-Screen Challenges and Benefits
Do you have all that it takes to be successful? Over the past year, cable executives have showcased and deployed applications that extend video services to new consumer electronics devices such as tablets, smartphones and connected TVs. Driven by the rise of mobile computing platforms and fierce competition from over-the-top entertainment providers, multi-screen applications offer […]
Monetizing Multi-Screen Deployments
MSOs need to focus on powering dynamic promotions to increase revenue. The push for multi-screen video services is creating new players in the digital content value chain, including over-the-top providers, and creating opportunities and challenges for service providers, advertisers, content providers and consumers. The implications for providers are a new set of challenges related to […]
Open Mic – Expo: Something for Everyone
The common thread: Listen to what the customer wants. By the time you read this, my year as program chair for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo will be drawing to a close. When the curtain goes up on Expo and a companion event, the Capacity Management Symposium, during the week of Nov. 14, it will mark the […]
Engineering-Wise – Kennen Sie Kabelnetze?
¿Sabe ustéd ecualización sobre DOCSIS? Savez-vous utiliser IPv6? It hasn’t gotten to the point where we’ve struck a partnership deal with Berlitz yet, but over the past couple of years there’s been a dramatic increase in interest from the international community in SCTE’s products and services. Those of you who are attending Cable-Tec Expo would […]
Comcast stems video sub losses in Q3; Xcalibur heads to ‘major market’
While Comcast is still mulling the fine print of its Xcalibur service, including price point and whether it will be a premium-only offering, the IP- and cloud-based, next-generation service is headed to a major market next year. Comcast President Neil Smit provided a few details on the Xcalibur service, which came out of cloaking mode […]
