Cable, Broadcast Pioneer Peter Storer Dies at 81

11/10/09 Cable and broadcast pioneer Peter Storer, 81, died Nov. 8 of cardiovascular disease at his home in Saratoga, Wyoming. Storer, whose father was pioneering broadcaster George Storer, built Storer Communications from a broadcast group into the fourth largest MSO at the time.Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1928, Storer grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University of Miami, where he met ..... ...Read More »

Cablevision Quietly Preps EBIF Launch

11/06/09 Cablevision Systems has already paddled out with proprietary technology for interactive TV ads, but it's expected to soon get fully on board with the industry's Canoe initiative. According to industry executives, ITV software developer Zodiac Interactive is providing an Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format user agent for Cablevision's Cisco/Scientific Atlanta set-top b..... ...Read More »

"Call of Duty" game shoots to make history

11/06/09 SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the buzz over the next "Twilight" film or James Cameron's "Avatar." The biggest entertainment hit of ...Read More »

NBCU Picks Web-Video Partners For Vancouver Games

11/05/09 NBC Universal has selected content-distribution network operator Akamai Technologies and iStreamPlanet, a provider of digital media services and software applications, to work with Microsoft to deliver live and on-demand video on the Internet for the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games next February. Las Vegas-based iStreamPlanet will provide satellite downlink encoding and prod..... ...Read More »

Cablers Put Pace Multiroom DVR to Test

11/04/09 Several smaller cable operators are completing field trials of Pace's Home Content Sharing product, a whole-home HD DVR that allows operators to distribute as many as nine simultaneous HD streams throughout the household. None of the publicly announced operators -- which include Mediacom Communications, Buckeye CableSystem and Sunflower Broadband -- has officially com..... ...Read More »

Pace Picks Up Multiroom DVR Customers

10/30/09 Denver— Set-top box manufacturer Pace has several takers for its new multiroom DVR solution, which the vendor touts as able to deliver up to nine HD streams at a time within a household. Pace’s Home Content Sharing system, on display last week at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo ’09, is built around a single, network-attached storage device. The DC900x, about the size ..... ...Read More »

BigBand Doubles Edge QAM Density

10/28/09 BigBand Networks is packing more channels into its universal edge QAM platform, with the introduction of the BEQ6200 that can provide 96 QAMs in a 1.5-rack-unit box. The vendor has shipped more than 600,000 edge QAMs to 60 service providers worldwide. The BEQ6200, scheduled to be available in the next 90 days, has twice the capacity of BigBand's previous-gen..... ...Read More »

Microsoft pulls out of "Family Guy" special

10/26/09 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox has lost Microsoft as the exclusive sponsor of its upcoming "Family Guy" variety special after the software company's exec ...Read More »

Digital Rapids Targets IP-Video Delivery

10/21/09 The growth in Internet-protocol video delivery and the increased popularity of tapeless workflows has been boosting demand for Digital Rapids' MediaMesh distribution system for delivery of high-definition, standard-definition and digital cinema content over IP networks and satellite. Two major U.S. broadcasters have implemented MediaMesh since it was launched earlier ..... ...Read More »

3-D Blu-ray Spec Expected by Year-End

10/21/09 The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is expected to complete a specification for the delivery of 3-D content into the home via Blu-ray discs by the end of the year, a top official said. That word came from the chairman of the BDA's U.S. promotion committee, Andy Parsons, senior vice president of product development and corporate communications at Pioneer Electronics (USA..... ...Read More »

David Verklin

10/19/09 David Verklin has spent nearly his entire career on the leading edge of advertising. Now that he's CEO of Canoe Ventures, that's never been more true. Cable industry leaders in 2008 turned to Verklin, long known as an energetic innovator, when they were looking to build the interactive and addressable advertising platform that they expect will change their business. “..... ...Read More »