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NCAA Highlights – A Perfect IPTV Application
The following video provides the few highlights from San Jose State University’s 37-0 loss to Stanford last week in Palo Alto. What makes this possible is a new licensing deal between Veoh (the player and online video network), NCAA and Collegiate Images, LLC, the licensing and rights clearance agency for video and still images. …
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The Intersection of DTV and Broadband
The February 2009, transition to an all-digital television broadcast is picking up steam with each passing day. This will be the catalyst for hybrid broadcast-IPTV solutions, pioneered in Europe, to make inroads in the U.S. This interview with Jeff Vinson of NXP semiconductor at the NAB tradeshow a few months ago indicated to me that…
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What Is IPTV?
By now, one would expect a uniform answer to such a simple question. Fortunately, I was able to gather a group of experts, via electronic means, to give their respective views on just what IPTV is. The following video provides a montage of comments from industry luminaries Kurt Scherf – Parks Associates, Jessica Kizorek –…
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My First Video Game Console Since Pong
While others were relaxing over the Labor Day weekend, we were busy “testing” the Wii and thinking of ways an independent telco might exploit this interesting device. This is my first video game console since Atari’s pioneering Pong game in the 70s. Club Viodi members, log in to view this video that made its debut…
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Voicemail to Email – A First Step to IPTV?
One of the presentations at the Innovative Systems User’s Group meeting was on the feature of receiving voicemail in one’s email box. That there had to be a presentation on this topic in August 2007 was somewhat surprising to me. [hidepost] MY OPINION – Every telco should have this capability and should have it bundled…
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Mitchell, South Dakota; AKA, Silicon Plains
Approximately 70 miles away from the Sioux Fall, SD regional airport and through seemingly endless cornfields, Mitchell, South Dakota is, at first glance, an unlikely place to find a concentration of telecommunications firms and Engineering brainpower. Home to Innovative Systems, Martin Group (incorrectly stated as Martin & Associates in the video) and Vantage Point Solutions,…
