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Set-Top Be Gone
Jared Baumann, Manager of Market Development and Deployment for C Spire, provides an update of their journey towards the elimination of the set-top box. To be more precise, this is about C Spire’s goal of allowing customers to access content on the device or screen of their choosing without having to rent a set-top box…
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A Cooperative Using Its Roots to Help Out with IPTV
Ubiquitous delivery of video via IP is what allows cable and telco operators to offer the multiscreen video services. In the above interview, Corey McCarthy of NCTC discusses their efforts to create a converged IPTV platform that could be used by any of its 400+ telco operator members as well as the hundreds of cable…
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GoogleTV as an Operator’s Middleware
Two-plus years since its release and the verdict as to whether GoogleTV will be a consumer success is still to be determined. The Trojan horse into the consumers’ living room for GoogleTV could be the operator. At the TV NEXT 2012 conference, start-up, iRevo, demonstrated its application of GoogleTV as a multiscreen middleware. With Google’s acquisition of…
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The Operator App Store
“It’s a competitive issue. They [Operators] want to be offering these solutions on their platforms so that their customers don’t go somewhere else,” said David Adams VP Corporate Development for Accedo. Adams was referring to the idea that operators are beginning to offer app stores to stay relevant in a world where over-the-top is causing…
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More Confusion or More Simplicity?
More confusion or more simplicity, that is the question asked by Paul Woidke of Nagra OpenTV in the above interview. He was referring to the idea that what started as touch-screen simplicity could end up with customer confusion as the number of apps on a particular device multiplies. Similarly, he discusses the opportunities and challenges…
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Another GEM from CableNEXT
ViodiTV Sponsorship Opportunities – Click Here Bill Sheppard, Chief Digital Media Officer for the Client Software Group, provides an excellent overview of OCAP and its relationship to MHP and GEM. He also talks explains what operators of IPTV networks should look for in middleware to ensure that applications designed for OCAP can be easily ported…