ResearchIP video transport: solutions for speedier video delivery
The industry’s unique demands for speed and multicasting have fueled the growth of specialist video IP transport companies like Aspera, Signiant, and Brevity. Read more »
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The industry’s unique demands for speed and multicasting have fueled the growth of specialist video IP transport companies like Aspera, Signiant, and Brevity. Read more »
AT&T (S ATT) is in advanced talks to buy DirecTV (S DTV) for $50 billion, or about $100 per share, Bloomberg reported Monday. AT&T’s plan is to turn the satellite company… Read more »
The House Energy and Commerce bill grants cable operators’ wish by sunsetting the integration ban. However, it also gives the FCC authority to impose new set-top security rules in the future. Read more »
From the review of Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable to the FCC’s proposed reboot of its overturned net neutrality rules, policymakers are playing a key role in shaping the… Read more »
Amazon’s FireTV unveiling comes on the eve of the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas, where one of the main focuses will be on making traditional TV platforms… Read more »
The economics of the TV business aren’t anywhere near as abstruse or opaque as the business of mortgage-backed structured finance. But the same sort of cockeyed incentives that inflated housing prices… Read more »
With 2GB of RAM and a dedicated GPU watching Amazon’s FireTV will be much more like watching traditional linear TV, with little latency between remote control inputs and response, and relative… Read more »
One proposal added to the draft bill to reauthorize STELA would eliminate the FCC rule requiring cable operators to separate the security components of the set-top boxes they lease to subscribers… Read more »
Dish Network’s linear streaming deal with Disney won’t be the last of its kind. But don’t expect the floodgates to be thrown open generally just yet, either. Read more »
Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller is proposing to attach a sweeping overhaul of the retransmission consent rules to a bill all the affected parties want to see passed. Read more »