Top Story
- Future May Be Less Televised
Is the dramatic rise in Internet-TV viewing eating into traditional television audiences? Two divergent answers to that question emerged at the Future of Television conference last week. more » » »
Q&A
 Cable's Future 'Gigabits' Networks
Rouzbeh Yassini, inventor of the cable modem, is already anticipating broadband connections that deliver more than 20 times the speeds of the "wideband" DOCSIS 3.0-based services Comcast is starting to offer today. more » » »
In Brief
- Ops Pledge Big ITV Base
Comcast and Time Warner Cable will support interactive-TV standards on more than 10 million set-top boxes by the end of 2008, and executives with the U.S.'s two biggest cable companies urged programmers to “get on the bandwagon” to develop ITV applications to exploit the technology. more » » »
- Verizon Cuts FiOS TV’s Last Analog Channels
Verizon Communications said it has completely eliminated analog simulcasts of local TV channels across its 14-state FiOS TV footprint under its commitment to the Federal Communications Commission to move to all-digital transmission by February 2009. more » » »
- CableLabs Recaps Advanced-Ad Interop Event
CableLabs said 15 vendors participated in the addressable-advertising interfaces interoperability event last week at its Louisville, Colo., headquarters. more » » »
- Trial Scheduled in TiVo's Legal Spat With EchoStar
A federal judge in Texas has scheduled additional hearings for next February to determine whether EchoStar's set-top boxes continue to infringe a key digital video recorder patent owned by TiVo. more » » »
- CableLabs Unifies Specs For Unicast Video
CableLabs has released specifications defining how cable headend equipment delivers personalized TV services, bringing architectures developed by Time Warner Cable and Comcast together under one umbrella. more » » »
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One Liners
- Comcast is launching wideband cable modem service—delivering downloads up to 50 Mbps—throughout its Washington State and Oregon footprint beginning in December.
- Verizon said it has completely eliminated analog simulcasts of local TV channels across its 14-state FiOS TV footprint under its commitment to the Federal Communications Commission to move to all-digital transmission by February 2009.
- A slumping economy and the woes of several large retailers could produce the first ever drop in sales of high-definition TV sets during the fourth quarter, according to research firm DisplaySearch.
- Nick Hamilton-Piercy, the former senior technology advisor and chief technical officer at Rogers Communications, was selected as an IEEE fellow, the organization’s most prestigious honor.
- The 20 largest U.S. cable and telephone providers, representing about 94% of the market, acquired about 1.3 million high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter, according to a survey by Leichtman Research Group.
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