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Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

Talk about a big ol’ asterisk. Comcast is launching commercial DOCSIS 3.0 service in Minneapolis/St. Paul with 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up — more
We’re still stuck pontificating what cable’s next wireless move will be. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, in his keynote at CTIA Wireless 2008 yesterday, did not
In the black art of video compression, the trick is to fool the human visual system into seeing things that aren’t there. All digital video is compressed.
Earlier this month I wrote about the odd Internet prank of "rick rolling," in which a link purported to be of a cool video clip actually sends the prankee to
NBC is promoting a new primetime cop-drama called Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime on its Web site. Starring Billy Baldwin and one Sarah Marshall, the show
Google’s still trying to get into the broadband game — but without plunking down billions of dollars for FCC spectrum licenses. Fresh off its (probably
Is Comcast planning to put videocameras in its DVRs so it can spy on its customers? Well, no. But a blogger from NewTeeVee suggested as much after his offhand
At first, there appeared to be the same issues Friday with the Joost live NCAA broadcasts as there were yesterday: The first several minutes of the first
Things started well today with Joost’s test of live, peer-to-peer streaming of the NCAA tournament. Right when the first game kicked off today — Georgia
Joost, the Internet TV startup backed by CBS, Viacom and others, will test out its live, streaming peer-to-peer software with the NCAA March Madness tournament,