Bit Rate

Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

What do you get when you cross-breed the Huffington Post, Time Warner Cable’s NY1 news wheel and Pandora? If the idea works, you might get Sii.TV, the brainchild
In the ever-popular Trolling for Trademarks Dept.: Cox Communications last week filed for trademark protection on “Flare” and “My Flare,” which
Lots of people aspire to being “cord-cutters.” There’s an undeniable populist yearning to want to stick it to The Man for the evil of forcing them to
Cisco Systems went into damage-control mode after CEO John Chambers told Wall Street last week that it’s decided to give up on low-end set-top box deals (see
Intel is gearing up to launch a hugely ambitious over-the-top live and on-demand TV service that could be spectacularly disruptive -- or DOA (see Intel Plans to Launch
You know those unceasing rumors of an Apple HDTV? Those are being supplanted, at least this week, by speculation about an Apple "iWatch."
A story on GigaOm today suggested that there is a serious problem with the usage meters that certain Internet service providers are using to track the amount of bits
Here's a measure of how poorly people think of cable companies: Consumers are roughly as likely to recommend their TV or broadband provider as their health plan.
According to user-behavior data, junk-food ads were among the most popular Super Bowl XLVII commercials -- while Hulu users voted for two heartstring-tugging spots as
YouTube is aiming to co-opt the dual revenue stream of cable TV, hoping to launch paid access to two dozen or so "channels" for somewhere between $1 and $5