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- Cable research industry working on new standard for VoIP enhancement
- CableLabs, the research arm of the U.S. cable television industry, is preparing an updated standard that would enable its members to enhance their current VoIP offerings with video telephony, TV-based instant messaging, and integration of VoIP service with wireless.This would be done via the forthcoming PacketCable 2.0 communications standard,an upgrade...
- Tags: CableLabs, VoIP, PacketCable 2.0, SIP
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- CableLabs RFP reveals tech wish list for cable VoIP providers
- CableLabs is a consortium of cable television access providers charged by member companies with developing enhanced services.... They've just put out an RFP ("Request For Proposal) for solutions that could, in CableLabs own words, "enable the development of a production-grade infrastructure to allow VoIP traffic exchange among MSOs and...
- Tags: CableLabs, VoIP, RFP
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
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- Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at least
- Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at leastnice to hear!I approve of their position, but since I'm not on their network however I will keep my VPN account up. Providers like the ones below may be some customers only options to bypass P2P controls on ISP's.http://www.strongvpn.comhttp://www.blacklogic.comhttp://www.bananahosting.comMany...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), NETWORKING, Network technology, P2P, network, P4P, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet Service Provider, P2P problem, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Poll: Where do you stand on digital media ethics?
- Poll: Where do you stand on digital media ethics?ethical stanceI find the result of the poll quite strange, answer being to my view non coherent.There a different ethical approach tocopying other's IP, but they can be described I think preetty well with few basic archetips:- Strict contractual view : When...
- Tags: Business ethics, digital media ethic, ethics, digital media, CD-I, CD, music
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Best storage strategies for the multimedia PC
- Best storage strategies for the multimedia PCCan FreeBSD or Linux use ICH Raid?I’m looking at building a NAS server for my video surveillance DVR at work. need lots of storage I am looking at rack mount cases and boards for this, my question is does the Intel ICH RAID only...
- Tags: Operating systems, strategy, RAID, storage, Microsoft Windows, multimedia
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- The battle for the living room platform
- Nintendo announced yesterday WiiWare, a program which will enable developers to create games that can be downloaded to the Wii console. Such games can be sold through the Wii Shop Channel, creating revenue opportunities for smaller-scale developers who wouldn't have the resources to create more labor intensive productions of a...
- Tags: Digital Media, DRM, Media Center, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Television, Wii, XBOX, XBOX 360
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Sony VAIO XL3 Digital Living System
- Sony's VAIO XL3 Digital Living System is a welcome improvement to previous versions of Sony's high-end home theater PC. The multidisc DVD changer is thankfully absent, and the PC itself comes with almost all the features we expect from a modern, living room-style computer. Similar to its older Digital Living...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, DVR, Desktops, Blu-ray, Sony Vaio, Sony VAIO XL3 Digital Living System, XL3, Sony Corp., Velocity, home theater
- Product reviews 2007-05-01
- Thoughts on Windows Media Center
- I just finished signing up for the Media Center "Fiji" beta program discussed by Mary Jo Foley in a recent blog post. Media Center is the way I watch television these days. It provides guide and DVR functionality for my TV watching, turns my TV into a categorized jukebox for...
- Tags: Vista, Television, Microsoft, Media Center, General, DRM, Digital Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?
- [Update 25-Oct 2:30PM PDT: I've revised the chart originally published with this post to incorporate feedback from the Talkback section. Thanks to all the commenters who added details.]A lot of hardware and software companies, including Microsoft, are betting big bucks that they can take over the living room and be...
- Tags: Beyond TV, digital video, digital video recorder, recorder, video recorder
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Vista Mythbusters #7: How much DRM is too much?
- Myth: Windows Vista is loaded with new forms of digital rights management DRM that will make the Vista experience more frustrating than ever.Reality: A new code-checking subsystem that protects the Windows Vista kernel and signed drivers is arguably a new form of DRM. How well will it perform in the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Corio:Code Integrity, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- TiVo sits at nexus of DRM conundrum
- Recently, I've been hearing a lot about how movie studios and other providers of video content are significantly more senstive to the idea that the High Definition versions of their content might get pirated than they are to other lower resolution versions. I'm not sure what the implications of this...
- Tags: TiVo Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- OCAP Enables Next Generation Interactive Services and Applications
- Service providers, content providers, and application developers all seek a new way of offering interactive services over cable infrastructure. CableLabs, a non-profit research and development consortium, has led the creation of the OpenCable Application Platform OCAP specification - a middleware software layer specification that allows service providers to launch exciting...
- Tags: Motorola Inc., OCAP, TVs, Cable, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike
- As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...
- Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- 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
- New Linux license takes aim at DRM and Hollywood
- New Linux license takes aim at DRM and HollywoodNew Linux license takes aim at DRM and HollywoodBut Linus wants DRM in the kernel! Sounds like inner subculture conflict. Either way this is bad for linux, good for the rest of us. If people can't listen to music...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, digital-rights management, Linux, software, GPL'ed, GPL'ed software, GPL, TiVo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-18
- DRM: Three dirty letters you won't hear in a CES keynote
- Doc Searls pans Paul Otellini's CES presentation of Intel's ViiV for the media cartel it's bound to create: Some of us myself included have been concerned about the DRM capabilities reportedly built into ViiV, but in his presentation Otellini made clear that Viiv has been in...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Doc, Sonos, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- A Guide to Securing Broadband Cable Networks: PacketCable™ Security
- In the near future, cable networks will carry low-latency voice and video signals with quality rivaling or surpassing that of the Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN. Along with the need for quality-of-service QoS assurance, voice- and video-over-IP services must also be protected from eavesdropping and theft of service. The PacketCable...
- Tags: Security, Network, Broadband, Cable Network, PacketCable 1.2 Security Specification, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
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