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Home Theater
March 25, 2008 |
Cable Ops Harass CableCARD Users Major cable operators are now cutting off program options to viewers who opted to dump their cable boxes for CableCARDS.   |
Home Theater
January 26, 2009 |
Tru2way Not Quite Ready for Prime Time Are you ready for the second generation of digital cable readiness? Cable operators are saying yes and TV makers are saying no. |
Home Theater
July 15, 2008 |
Will Tru2Way Succeed? Rocky road is a tasty type of ice cream. It's also the forecast some analysts are making for Tru2Way, the latest attempt to provide the consumer with the holy grail of digital cable readiness. |
Home Theater
May 29, 2008 |
Sony Signs Tru2Way Pact Sony has signed an agreement with six major cable operators to make its products compatible with the new bidirectional, or Tru2Way, CableCARD standard. |
Home Theater
May 22, 2008 |
Samsung Shows Bidirectional CableCARD DVR The Samsung SMT-3090, recently shown at the CableNET show, is the first DVR with Tru2way, or bidirectional CableCARD. |
Home Theater
August 5, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
CableLabs Demos Multizone Tru2way CableLabs has demonstrated that DVR content can be shared among multiple tru2way set-top boxes and DLNA-certified devices throughout the home. |
Home Theater
April 30, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
TiVo Pleads for Cable Parity TiVo asks Congress to make retail devices as functional as leased ones. |
Home Theater
August 25, 2008 |
EchoStar Goes Tru2Way EchoStar has signed an agreement with CableLabs to bring Tru2Way to Dish Network satellite subscribers. |
Home Theater
December 8, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Looks for Life After CableCARD What will be the next medium for digital cable readiness? |
PC World
May 23, 2007
Dan Tynan |
New Choices Coming for Cable TV Users You'll be able to buy more-powerful set-top boxes, but there will be drawbacks. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Cliff Edwards |
Interactive TV: What's In The Cards? It's electronics companies vs. the cable giants in a battle over digital services |
Home Theater
April 5, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC to Revisit Cable Readiness CableCARD rules to be revised, successor planned. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Unchained From The Cable Box The FCC is breaking the cable hold on set-top boxes and letting rivals step in. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Drowning In Remotes? Thank Cable Operators It may be too soon to replace your cable set-top box. |
Home Theater
September 12, 2003
Gary Merson |
FCC Approves "Plug'n'Play" The "plug and play" agreement will allow consumers to connect digital televisions directly into cable systems, without a set-top-box. |
Home Theater
July 6, 2007 |
Verizon Dodges FCC CableCARD Rules Starting on July 1, all non-broadcast television providers are required under federal law to support the CableCARD standard and storebought cable boxes - with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is Verizon. |
Home Theater
October 15, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
CEA Applauds New CableCARD Rules Stiffened FCC regs follow years of halfhearted cable compliance. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
An End Run Around The Set-Top Box CableCARDs bypass a rental box, but the old providers won't give up without a fight. |
PC World
October 26, 2006
Alan Stafford |
New HDTVs Bring Higher Def, Better Color Increased resolution, new peripherals and connections promise the best TV yet. |
Home Theater
June 21, 2007 |
CableCARD Cost to Hit Comcast Customers Comcast has become the first cable operator to announce that it will pass on one particular cost of CableCARD-capable boxes to its subscribers. |
Home Theater
August 27, 2007 |
Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Google's Next Billion-Dollar Business? What are the evil geniuses at Google cooking up with Dish Network? An assault on your living room, of course. |
Home Theater
February 26, 2009 |
Cable Shows to Go Online Cable operators are leading the effort to put cable programming on the internet. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Could Cable Get Boxed In? New FCC mandates could ultimately hurt the cable multisystems operators. The commission wants consumers to be able to purchase their own set-top boxes, theoretically to reduce the MSOs' control over the entire subscription process. Investors, take note. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Navin Sabharwal |
Video on Demand: Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You Despite repeated false dawns it can now be confidently said that Video on Demand (VOD) is arriving and that over the next few years it will become a significant component of the service bundle that cable operators will offer. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2007
Roy Mark |
FCC Pushes for Competitive Set-Top Market The Federal Communications Commission denies Comcast request for delay in separating security features from set-top digital receivers. |
Home Theater
July 20, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Gets CableCARD Comments The FCC entertains suggestions from big cable and other interested parties. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2006
Rich Smith |
Comcast Opens Up The cable company ups its slate of vendors, and the more vendors it has in its lineup, the better it can play the one against the other for better pricing in the future. Investors, take note. |
Home Theater
November 14, 2008 |
Times Are Hard? Raise Cable Rates! Home prices are plummeting, people are maxing out their credit cards, the stock market is in convulsions, health care costs are out of control, and the economy is rocketing into recession. America needs a morale booster. What better time to raise cable television rates? |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
TiVo, Minus The Tangle The new TiVo HD is a harbinger of better things that will be here soon. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2008
Gene Hirschel |
Is 'Tru2Way' True Two-Way TV? Brian Roberts of Comcast delivers a few wows at CES about cable's next content horizon. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Can Cable Finally Innovate? Those ubiquitous set-top cable boxes are quickly becoming obsolete. Consumers and service providers alike rejoice. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2004
Colin Haley |
New Cisco Gear Targets Cable VOD In the face of mounting competition, the network equipment maker introduces new products to help cable operators deliver video-on-demand services. |
Home Theater
August 19, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Cox to Support TiVo Premiere DVR Testing to start this year, full rollout in 2011. |
InternetNews
March 12, 2004
Ron Miller |
Cox launches VoD with Optical Player Cox Cable has launched Video on Demand (VoD) services with the help of Internet Photonics, a move that could signal that VoD over optical wires is ready to enter the mainstream. |
PC World
September 27, 2007
Lincoln Spector |
LCD vs. Plasma: Which HDTV Is Right for You? LCD TVs may be sexy, but our lab tests show that plasma screens still have an edge and you can get a surprisingly pleasing picture at 40-42" without splurging. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Cliff Edwards |
Coming Soon to Your Screen: T-Commerce Cable operators are ramping up interactive sales during shows |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Can Smart TV Do What 3-D TV Couldn't? Your living room is getting smarter. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2006
Rich Smith |
The DVR That Isn't Cablevision's plans for a remote-storage DVR don't exactly inspire confidence. Will consumers bite? Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2009
Tom Lowry |
Don't Count Out Pay TV Just Yet Cable subscribers say they would consider canceling during tough times, but there are powerful incentives not to do so |
Home Theater
September 1, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Court Knocks FCC Cable Limit Until recently, no single cable operator was allowed to dominate more than 30 percent of the U.S. market. But a court has thrown out the Federal Communications Commission's market cap, eliminating a rule that's been the law of the land since 1992. |
Home Theater
September 14, 2007 |
FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog. |
Home Theater
August 14, 2008 |
Verizon, Intel Want Ethernet in TVs Verizon and Intel have asked the Federal Communications Commission to mandate ethernet ports in video devices. |
Linux Journal
September 1, 2007
Nicholas Petreley |
/var/opinion - The Ultimate Linux PVR The bottom line is if you want a real Personal Video Recorder, get TiVo. It will be a sad day if GPLv3 forces TiVo to fork Linux in order to continue using it. TiVo has done a remarkable job with Linux and its hardware, and it should be rewarded, not punished. |
Home Theater
May 28, 2009 |
Court Nixes Cable Apartment Exclusives Do you live in an apartment building served by cable? If so, you're probably resigned to your local cable operator having a monopoly. But the U.S. Court of Appeals says that's not the way it has to be. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2009
Anders Bylund |
One Step Closer to Entertainment Nirvana The next telly you buy will be better than the old one in several important ways. It'll be slicker, sweeter, and perfectly capable of serving up its own shows and movies whenever you need it. Which companies are ready to benefit from this? |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Sigma Stumbles, Gets Right Back to Business Some price drops are warning signals -- others are buying opportunities. For Sigma Designs, it's the latter. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Lowry & Grover |
Cable Fights For Its Movie Rights Video-on-demand's reach is expanding, and the cable biz wants to show films sooner. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Jay Greene |
Microsoft Sharpens Up Its Elbows Microsoft is on the move again. As it has in the past, the software giant is trying to elbow aside rivals who have pioneered new markets. It's taking on TiVo in TV digital recording and Google in Web searches |
InternetNews
October 25, 2005
Tim Gray |
Time Warner, NBC Renew VoD Pact Video on demand continues to play an important role in cable services. |
