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The Value Is From the Members #TIS17
“This really reminds me of what the cable industry used to be,” states Matt Polka, president and CEO of the American Cable Association in the above video. Polka’s comment points to a time when the cable television industry was young and consisted of thousands of small operators building networks from scratch. Conferences in those days…
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Lights, Set-Top, Action
What happens when you mix a home lighting system with a set-top box? Clark Stevens of CableLabs demonstrates this unlikely convergence of the so-called Internet of Things and how CableLabs envisions being able to help cable operators create applications that marry these two disparate “things” into a better experience for the consumer (e.g. viewer hits…
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Innovation of Things at the 2014 Cable Show
“Everybody’s looking to innovate,” said Matt Polka of the American Cable Association. Polka explains that innovation surrounding the cable broadband ecosystem was one of the themes of the 2014 Cable Show. He stresses that innovation is an important element to giving consumers’ what they want; whether that is new ways of viewing content or apps…
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From Video to Broadband – Regulations Need to Catch Up
“Our members are moving from being cable video companies to broadband Internet companies,” said Matt Polka president and CEO of the American Cable Association (ACA). He was reflecting upon the how the business has shifted from video to broadband-centric services. His concern is that ACA members also need to have access to the same technology,…
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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…
