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- Top-10 brands for Q1 2008: product placement on cable TV
- Brand Product Category Total # Occurrences Under Armour Apparel Apparel 2,960 Elle Magazine Magazine 2,429 Orange County Choppers Apparel Apparel 2,264 Orange County Choppers Motorcycles Motorcycles 1,978 New York Yankees Baseball Team Baseball Team 1,155 ...
- Tags: Apparel, Cable Television, Brand, Baseball, Motorcycle, Apparel Apparel, Team Management, Branding, Management, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Top programs for product placement on cable TV in Q1 2008
- Program Network Total # Occurrences American Chopper TLC 16,164 Project Runway BRAVO 9,816 L.A. Ink TLC 5,684 Real World Road Rules Challenge MTV 5,435 Making The Band 4 MTV 5,330 Rob & Big MTV 4,929...
- Tags: Cable Television, MTV, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-24
- Top cable TV programs with product placements
- Program Network Total # Occurrences American Chopper TLC 52,503 Miami Ink TLC 20,594 Dog The Bounty Hunter A&E 19,179 American Hot Rod TLC 14,281 Overhaulin’ TLC 13,738 Run’s House MTV 9,898 L.A. Ink...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Cable Television, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD
- Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HDBitrate numbers?Can you post the bitrate/codec that the recorded HD shows playback at? The data-rate would be an important factor for some of us as lower bitrates = less quality.ThanksVideo bit rateThis is DVR-MS format, which uses Windows Media codecs. A typical...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cable, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Windows, Right Now IT, Media Center PC, CableCard, HD-DVR, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows Media Center, cable television
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD
- Six months ago, after years of waiting, I finally had a chance to switch my Media Center setup over to a fully digital, cable-compatible, high-definition configuration. How has it worked out? Let's just say you'd have to pry the Media Center remote from my cold dead fingers. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Dell Computer Corp., Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, CableCard, Media Center PCs, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- 90% of US cable operators offer HDTV
- The increasing competitiveness of the US pay-TV market continues to drive cable TV operators in the United States to invest in their networks and roll out new services, reports In-Stat. For example, an impressive 90% of US cable TV systems now offer HD video service. This is one of the...
- Tags: Cable Television, HDTV, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Seriously, what is wrong with Comcast?
- Back in January I wrote a blog entry discussing my desire to cut back my cable television and rely more on iTunes, Netflix, Joost, etc. I asked Comcast to simply disconnect my cable TV but keep my Internet. That's when they informed me they could do that, but they...
- Tags: Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- WSJ: Google selling, tailoring cable TV ads
- Google is working with a small broadband provider in Concord, Calif. to tailor cable television ads to specific audiences. In other words, Google is trying to do the same targeting in cable television that it does with keywords. ...
- Tags: TVs, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Wall Street Journal, cable television, Google Inc., cable, advertisement, TV, cable company
- Blog posts 2007-03-10
- Is Apple Out to Kill Tivo?
- Yeah, Im calling it. I think Apple and others are about to send Cable TV and Tivo a clear message...your time is almost up. The Web 2.0 world is about to kick the door in and escort the old methodology to pasture. And I think it is going to happen...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Business, Media, Tech, RSS, Google, Yahoo, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Apple, Mac, Windows, Apple Computer Inc., Apple TV, TV
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Best articulation of the struggle between Cable TV and Internet video
- Motorola is one of the heavy hitters in the set top box market. Not only do they make the cable tuners that a lot of cable companies install at their customers premises, they also make TiVo-comparable digital video recorders DVRs. By the way, if you ask me, leasing a DVR...
- Tags: Motorola Inc., cable, Hollywood On Demand, Personal Technology, Entertainment, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- FreeIPTV Internet TV Player (msi)
- FreeIPTV Internet TV Player features radio stations live TV, on demand and learning resources. The interface is easy to use and easy to map remote controls to. You can use this program as an alternative to your cable TV service, and as the content improves you will have more channels...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, cable television, radio, TV
- Software downloads 2006-06-15
- Hauppauge CEO on Cable TV DRM: Common Sense will prevail
- Hauppauge CEO on Cable TV DRM: Common Sense will prevailMadnessTechnically such a move is useless because at some point within the TV the analog hole (or plaintext hole - if its a fully digital device) reappears. TV is not a complex technology - even digital. There must...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Digital rights management (DRM), Cable, Digital media, TV, content provider, Microsoft Corp., Cable-TV DRM, cable television
- Discussion threads 2006-04-13
- Hauppauge CEO on Cable TV DRM: Common Sense will prevail
- Unbeknownst to most consumers, the world of cable TV is currently going through a technological and legal revolution that, if things continue on their present course, could render obsolete just about any device that can take a feed from a cable box. For example, your TV set. Proponents...
- Tags: analog hole, Hauppauge Technologies, TV
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Only 5% of satellite or cable TV customers would switch to telecom TV
- Only 5% of satellite or cable TV subscribers that responded to Research and Market survey said they would definitely switch to a telco TV provider. Another 13% said they would probably switch, but 52% were undecided. Video surveillance and video telephony, where 25% are willing to pay extra, in addition...
- Tags: swITch, willing to pay
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- 347 mln cable TV subscribers worldwide, only 50 mln have cable modems
- With the number of analog cable TV subscriber households either flat or declining in many developed countries, the cable TV industry's future depends more and more on cable modem service and digital video services, reports In-Stat. There are currently 44 mln digital cable TV households around the world, and it...
- Tags: cable television
- Blog posts 2006-02-06
- Bellsouth targets Google with cyberextortion?
- Regarding BellSouth's alleged attempt to charge Google blood money so that the telco's customers could access Google's Web sites, Doc Searls writes: BellSouth wasn't thinking. They were doing what big carriers always do, which is look for ways to make big money with tiered service to big...
- Tags: BellSouth Corp., Google Inc., cable television
- Blog posts 2006-01-22
- 47% of WiFi users have digital cable TV
- 47% of those who accessed the Internet through a wireless connection said they had digital cable TV, compared to 40% of wired broadband users and 21% of dial-up users. 30% of the wireless group had digital video recorders, compared to 22% of broadband users and 12% of dial-up connectors. 28%...
- Tags: broadband user
- Blog posts 2006-01-17
- 30% of Internet users go to cable TV sites for news
- JupiterResearch claims that cable television and portal Web sites are well-positioned to dominate the online news market. While most online consumers still get their national and international news from television, 30% of online consumers turn to cable TV news sites for their national and international news versus 29% for print...
- Tags: cable television
- Blog posts 2005-12-29
- 51% of US households have cable TV, 26% - satellite
- According to Ipsos survey, 51% of US households have cable TV, 26% receive their television via satellite, 1% have both, and 22% have neither.
- Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, cable television, satellite
- Blog posts 2005-12-22
- In response to SprintNextel deal, Vonage joins the VoIP service bundle battle
- Two stories broke today that on the face of it, have little to do with each other. But if you give these developments more than just a moment's thought, they have everything to do with each other.These developments are:Vonage Canada says it has signed a deal with Vancouver, B.C.-based Novus...
- Tags: SprintNextel, cable
- Blog posts 2005-11-03
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