Distribution

Comcast Media Center Weighs VOD, HD Offerings

Executives at Comcast Corp.’s Comcast Media Center are in discussions with clients of Headend in the Sky to determine whether to add HDTV p

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Time Warner Plays Games with Bluestreak

Time Warner Cable will launch Bluestreak Technology Inc.’s “Digital Entertainment Middleware” under a deal announced Tuesday.

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MSOs, Vendors Form Java Group, Eye Standard

A group of MSOs and technology providers Tuesday announced the formation of the Java Community Process Expert Group.

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DirecTV Adds 406K Subs, New Bird

DirecTV Group Inc. said Tuesday that its direct-broadcast satellite service added a record 460,000 net subscribers in the first quarter.

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HDNet Gets Up Close with Roy Firestone

HDNet said Tuesday that it will premiere Up Close with Roy Firestone this summer.

Firestone wil

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Charter Rings Up Nortel for VoIP

Charter Communications Inc. will use Nortel Networks Corp.’s voice-over-Internet-protocol gear in its Midwest and Great Lakes operating div

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Liberate Climbs the ‘OnRamp to OCAP’

Liberate Technologies said Tuesday that it is teaming up with several hardware vendors, broadcasters and content developers on the initial ca

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OpenTV, Motorola Ink Five-Year Pact

Motorola Inc. said Tuesday that it signed a five-year licensing and porting agreement for OpenTV Corp.'s interactive-television-middleware pr

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Time Warner, OpVista Go Optical in Waco

Time Warner Cable has deployed OpVista Inc.’s “MetroVista 2000” optical system at 12 sites in Waco, Texas, and the surrounding region,

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SES Americom Fires Up ‘HD-PRIME’

Gather up the welcoming committee: SES Americom Inc.’s “HD-PRIME -- America’s Cable Neighborhood" is in business.

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