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53 Areas of Harm?
At a superficial level, it would appear that the Comcast/Time-Warner businesses wouldn’t remove competition as they generally serve non-overlapping geographic areas. Additionally, Comcast would divest and swap systems with Charter to maintain less than 30% nationwide market share in the Pay-TV market. The reality is that there are different market segments, beyond distribution of pay-TV,…
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Preview of the Merger Mix-Up at the ACA Summit
Almost lost in the noise from last week’s FCC’s actions are the ongoing FCC deliberations about the proposed Comcast/Time Warner and AT&T/DirecTV merger/acquisitions. It won’t be a forgotten topic at the 2015 ACA Summit, as Ross Lieberman of ACA reminds in the above interview. This panel is so fresh, its description isn’t even on the website…
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Nailing the Content Search & Discovery Experience
“There is a significant initiative (about 200 people working on the challenge) at Comcast in terms of making it easier to find content that they want to watch,” said Amit Bagga, Chief Scientist, Search and Discovery, Technology & Product Development for Comcast. In this interview, Bagga suggested that maintaining the lean-back experience of watching TV,…
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The Voice Remote Control – A Trojan Horse in the Living Room
The voice-enabled remote control may become one of those 10 year+ overnight successes. The definition of success may be the question, as adding this piece of hardware as part of the user interface ecosystem may have far-reaching impacts beyond the obvious benefit of finding better content and finding it faster. In the above video, filmed…
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Home Energy Management as Content
“The furnace and the air conditioner in the average home accounts for almost 50% of energy use, so, it’s a big-ticket item about a $1,000 a year in the average home,” according to John Steinberg, EVP of Business Development and Co-Founder of EcoFactor. EcoFactor provides an energy management service with an initial focus on heating…
