ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Vermont as a Brand
With the rise of communications behemoths, it is easy to forget that the acronym CATV stands for Community Antenna Television and that the roots of CATV can still be seen in many of the systems that still exist in rural America. The 60 subscriber “cable network” that Cliff Duncan bought in 1972 was the prototypical early CATV system, as,…
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Automated Live Video Production #CES 2016
Simplifying the video production of live events is Livestream’s objective with its with Movi, which it previewed at the Pepcom Digital Experience! event at CES. Phil Worthington, founder, SVP Research and Development of Livestream, describes this 4k, 30 frame/second, 150 degree field of view video capture device that records locally as well as streams via…
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Car Comforts with the Efficiencies of an Electric Motorcycle #CES2016
With an aim of helping to “catalyze the shift to a sustainable transportation system,” Mark Frohnmayer and the company he founded, Arcimoto, have a game-changing vision. Frohnmayer, who has had start-up success in the gaming world, is pragmatic about how to achieve that vision as evidenced by the prototype SRK that was on display at Pepcom’s recent…
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IoT – Internet of Trash Cans #CES2016
With 254 million tons of garbage generated each year, according to 2013 EPA statistics, it is no wonder that some portion of it spills into the roadways, sidewalks and green spaces of America. As seen in the above video, Grant Jenkins and the company he cofounded, eCeptacle, believes their IoT solution, not only can help reduce litter,…
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You Can Make a Difference
“You have to believe you can make a difference and I do believe that,” says Cliff Duncan of Duncan Cable in the above video filmed at the 2015 ACA Summit. Duncan and his colleagues from around the country provide a glimpse of why the ACA Summit is an important venue for showing Washington D.C. policymakers the…
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The Smart Phone Walkie-Textie
When there is no network, a smartphone isn’t so smart. Jorge Perdomo understood that notion when he came up with the idea for the goTenna. Using the unlicensed, 151-154 MHz, MURS (Multi Use Radio Service) band, Perdomo and his colleagues developed a device that uses Bluetooth low energy to pair with a smartphone; essentially turning the smartphone into a sort of…