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- Interactive Television Is Here Again. Want Anchovies With That?
- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You’ve been waiting for more than three decades to “interact†with your television, voting for your favorite local candidate, shopping for shoes, or, of course, ordering a pizza. That was the implicit promise of cable television systems, since the launch...
- Tags: Cable Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- TV Toolbar 2.4 (Windows)
- Get rid of your cable tv bills! With our TV Toolbar you will have one click access to most of the major networks. You will have the option to watch your episodes when you want to watch them, some networks even give you their live feed. As a bonus you...
- Tags: Cable Television, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2009-02-28
- Sundance Channel Extends THE GREEN on Its Eco-Site With Google Maps for Enterprise
- Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel has shown cable television viewers a blend of independent films, documentaries and groundbreaking programming for over a decade. It wanted to create an online community of green enthusiasts to extend and support television programming. It also sought to create an engaging...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cable Television, Google Maps, Programming, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Development Tools, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Transition Time II: Getting Cable TV To Your Computer
- Transition Time II: Getting Cable TV To Your ComputerCommercial?Of course you could just use a Media Center PC, and let's face it, since we're forced to get Vista on most PC's, a lot of them are media enabled.This article sounds a bit like a product commercial :-(Internal solutions?Is there an...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Cable, TV & Home Theater, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Transition Time, cable television, PC, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-23
- Transition Time II: Getting Cable TV To Your Computer
- Even if your cable service won't tell you how to do it, there is a way to get its TV channels to your computer. And you won't be stealing a thing. Here's the rundown, with an assist from Lars Felber, a product marketing manager for Elgato Systems...
- Tags: Cable Television, Computer, Video 1 Cable, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- Cable TV ad spending, Q1-Q3 2008
- Media Category Growth, YTY Cable TV 8.4% Syndication TV 2.5% National Sunday Supplement 2.4% Hispanic Cable TV 1.1% Network TV 0.9% Spot Radio 0.8% Spot TV - Top 100 DMAs 0.7% Spot TV -...
- Tags: Cable Television, Advertisement, Radio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked
- Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has OverlookedThe problem is the subscriptionI think this only gets the problem half correct. I do not really mind the idea of buying a television; I could save money for a couple of months and buy a decent one for a...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, cable television, digital television, TV, cable, NetFlix Inc., Hulu
- Discussion threads 2008-12-22
- Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked
- Let’s say you’re the owner of one of the 20 million or so television households still taking in over-the-air signals on at least one set to get NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and independent TV stations, for local broadcasts. Conventional wisdom has it that...
- Tags: Cable Television, Digital Television, Cable, Computer, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?Well, of course satellite is gaining peopleJust look at the amount of price difference between satellite and cable: half to 1/3 of the price, at most!Until cable starts DEcreasing their prices...... they are going to...
- Tags: Network technology, TVs, cable number, cable television, cable, satellite
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo’s Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered “plus sign†for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...
- Tags: Cable Television, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Hillcrest Labs, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 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
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