Todd Spangler

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Google TV's Second Act

Google still believes it can wrap its massive Internet arms around TV — even after consumers spurned its freshman effort as clunky and not very useful. Two years after the company launched an ambitious strategy to meld Web search, online video and apps with traditional television, Google TV has failed to take off. Indeed, one of Google’s initial marquee hardware partners,... More

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Cable Show 2012: NDS to Demo 'Video Wallpaper'

Like many a chubby American, big-screen HDTVs continue to get bigger — ballooning to an average TV screen size of 38 inches in the U.S. last year, up from 27 inches in 2004, according to DisplaySearch. So why not go whole-hog and splash TV across the entire living-room wall? That’s the concept behind NDS’s Surfaces demo, set for next week’s Cable Show in... More

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Coax Lives! SCTE's Howard on How HFC Is Adapting for Next-Gen Services

What’s hot on the technology agenda at the 2012 Cable Show? You can expect to see a continuation of the big trends that have been percolating the last few years: multiscreen video, ultra-fast broadband, new user interfaces and dynamic advertising. But underlying those applications, a key area the cable-tech world will be focused on is extending the life of the venerable hybrid... More

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To Level the Internet Video Playing Field, Must You Dismantle Traditional Pay-TV?

If Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has his way, AT&T’s U-verse TV subscribers could suddenly find themselves having to pay usage surcharges if their monthly TV viewing exceeds a certain amount. That’s because, according to Hastings’ argument, if a broadband provider applies bandwidth-usage caps to Internet-delivered video — like his company’s service —... More

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Is 'TV Everywhere' Liberating or Coercive?

The mainstream media has been abuzz this week with word that Hulu is exploring authenticated “TV Everywhere” deals with pay-TV operators — apparently unaware that Fox, one of Hulu’s owners, started doing this with its first-run primetime shows last summer . In July 2011, Fox announced it would begin withholding new episodes of popular shows like House ,... More