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THE RAPID INTEREST IN DEVELOPING AND deploying HDTV--coupled with the cable industry's push to launch video-on-demand--has created strong interest in marrying the two technologies and services. Cable operators are moving [...]

Internet Photonics Inc. and Jedai Broadband Networks last week signed a partnership agreement that calls for the pair to combine certain technologies for cable-deployed voice and data services to small [...]

America Online last week pulled the wraps off AOL 9.0, new software filled with enhancements the online service provider hopes will appeal to both narrowband and broadband subscribers. The No. [...]

SEATTLE -- Perhaps not every East Coast CTAM-type showed up here last week for the association's annual summer Summit. But the 2,361 Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing members who [...]

While Microsoft Corp. executives unveiled the new TV Foundation Edition interactive program guide to much fanfare at last month's National Show executives at Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. quietly went about [...]

Using MyDTV's TV Agent service, Time Warner Cable's Desert Cities, Calif., system, showed a 35% drop in digital churn and a 40% increase in PPV usage during a trial run. [...]

A new Englewood, Colo.-based outfit is developing software tools to help cable operators manage new-build marketing initiatives and handle ad-sales related trafficking issues. Axiom Solutions assisted one large MSO in [...]

PeopleSoft Inc. has launched a customer profitability-management solution for communications companies--including cable MSOs--that it said can help operators sell new services via a more-sophisticated database. 'The software was born out [...]

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP a measurement system for video-on-demand, which could serve as a breakthrough that would allow television's most popular programming to migrate to the on-demand [...]

DENVER -- HDTV will benefit cable operators in their fight against direct-broadcast satellite, a panel of cable programmers and MSOs concluded at a Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Rocky [...]

Cox Communications Inc. last week signed Nortel Networks Corp. and Nuera Communications Inc. to supply gear that would help the MSO handle some of its customers' long-distance telephone calls on [...]

CHICAGO -- Both Motorola Inc. and Pace Micro Technologies plc last week heeded the call for sub-$100 equipment. The two vendors used the venue of the National Show here to [...]

CHICAGO -- The reappearance of Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates at last week's National Show added a welcome dose of drama to an otherwise calm convention. [...]

CHICAGO -- Cable operators and programmers banged the drum for HDTV long and loud last week at their annual convention here. With a first-of-its-kind HDTV pavilion on the National Show [...]

The cable industry has deployed tens of millions of here-and-now VOD-enabled digital set-tops. And operators continue to look at futuristic home networking, 'media center'-type devices. But the set-top buzz this [...]

Starz Encore Group LLC today (June 9) will announce the launch of separate HDTV and high resolution TV feeds of Starz!. The premium programmer also intends to provide operators with [...]

The migration towards HDTV picked up steam last week, as several cable networks, content providers, operators and direct-broadcast satellite companies announced new wrinkles last week, ahead of this week's National [...]

Buzztime Entertainment Inc. has begun play on Susquehanna Communications Inc.'s Williamsport, Pa., system. It's also notched two more deals that will bring more gaming content from Media General Inc. in-house [...]

MidStream Technologies Inc. and nCUBE Corp. have signed a deal to collaborate on the sale of VOD server systems to operators. Under the arrangement, MidStream would supply the server hardware [...]

Comcast Corp. will work to make its telephony operations profitable in 2003, cleaning up much of its bad debt and its sales operations, said senior vice president of telephony Rian [...]

Comcast Corp. will have more flexibility to allocate bandwidth I across its cable systems in the future, said chief technology officer David Fellows. That manuevering room will allow Gomcast to [...]

Motive Communications Inc. signed a deal with Cox Communications Inc. to license Motive's xi Smart Service Suite that includes self-activation and auto-provisioning for high-speed Internet service. The deal, announced in [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Word that Comoast Corp. and other MSOs are seriously considering a more rapid transition to an all-digital network - first revealed by Comcast executives in Multichannel News May [...]

Comcast Corp. executives are pondering a more rapid shift to an all-digital cable transmission platform -- perhaps in the next three years -- to free up bandwidth for expanded video-on-demand, [...]

A&E Television Networks is dipping its toe into the HDTV waters, joining several more high-profile, HD-conscious basic networks inside the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's HD Pavilion at June's National [...]

There's something new about the National Basketball Association playoffs that kicked off this past weekend: Some games were broadcast in high-definition format. After carrying four regular-season games in HD (as [...]

SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PROGRAMMING HAS BEEN A financial success for nearly every pay TV platform on which it appears, and video-on-demand is no exception. Cable's two principal adult programming providers, Playboy [...]

Movielink, the four-month old Internet download movie service owned by most of the major Hollywood studios, is branching out, adding content from Artisan Entertainment Inc. and creating a special foreign-language [...]

The business-services divisions of some MSOs might have taken a back seat to their residential online brethren, who've been plowing ahead with strong modem growth rates. But cable is still [...]

BOULDER, COLO.-Comcast Corp. has switched on 75 'friendly' homes for its voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone-service trial in Philadelphia's western suburbs. The MSO also plans to add as many as 500 [...]

Three executives from MSOs that launched video-on-demand shared their experiences--and their sometimes-divergent viewpoints--on topics ranging from content to pricing to marketing at a nationwide Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing [...]

Voice over Internet-protocol telephony is edging closer to reality, but cable-voice pioneer Cox Communications Inc. isn't quite ready to deploy the new technology, its chief technician said last week. 'Can [...]

BigBand Networks Inc. has extended its reach into high-definition TV, inking a deal to sell its broadband multimedia router to York, Pa.-based MSO Susquehanna Communications Inc. SusCom will use the [...]

Cablevision Systems Corp. plans to buy an Internet-protocol telephony soft switch by the end of the second quarter as part of a voice-over-IP test, according to Cablevision New York president [...]

Nuera Communications InnoMedia Inc. last week demonstrated a cable telephony voice-encryption service at Cable Television Laboratories Inc.'s winter conference -- one of more than a dozen companies displaying new technology [...]

Call it VOD Version 2.0 -- Insight Communications Co. spent the better part of 2002 rebuilding its video-on-demand technology and content platform, piece by piece. The late 2001 demise of [...]

Comcast Corp.'s telephony pullback in former AT&T Broadband markets might not mean much to the MSO's bottom line, but it sure has hurt the folks at Arris Group Inc. The [...]

Cox Communications Inc. has taken the digital video recorder plunge, offering the service to subscribers in Gainesville, Fla., through Scientific-Atlanta Inc.'s Explorer 8000 set-top. 'It's an opportunity to enhance the [...]

Incognito Software Inc. has thrown its hat into the cable broadband-software ring, targeting larger MSOs for provisioning software that has mainly been used by smaller operators and international clients. The [...]

SBC Communications Inc. reported strong growth in its digital subscriber line business over the fourth quarter, while Verizon Communications Inc. produced solid numbers and BellSouth Corp. disappointed. SBC added 245,000 [...]

Quarterly earnings reports from leading cable-equipment vendors are trickling in, and although year-over-year results continue to look ugly, sequential gains in revenue suggest there is of light at the end [...]

HOW HIGH ARE THE STAKES FOR THE CABLE industry's video-on-demand rollout? Pretty high. Faced with subscriber-growth rates that are dwindling--if not retreating--in the face of direct-broadcast satellite, VOD is one [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The cable industry will extend CableLabs's Go2Broadband initiative to high-definition television services, top executives said at the International Consumer Electronics Show here last week. Comcast Corp., Cox [...]

Interactive television is alive and well at Game Show Network. The programmer forged ahead with new, synched-to-broadcast interactive PC features in 2002, as interactivity became a core part of the [...]

CSTV: College Sports Television, the 24-hour network devoted to 25 men's and women's sports, launches Feb. 23 with an interesting game plan: broadband and video-on-demand will represent components of the [...]

Cable Television Laboratories Inc. ushered in the DOCSIS 2.0 era last week, granting certification approval to five cable modem and cable-modem termination system manufacturers. The newly approved gear will give [...]

Cablevision Systems Corp. has tapped Netsurfer Inc. to handle online provisioning and account-management activities for its Optimum Online cablemodem service. The Netsurfer software allows prospective Optimum Online subscribers to set [...]

ABC Cable Networks Group will unveil four broadband content promotions in 2003, designed to help cable operators push cable-modem service to a wider audience. 'We want to help them drive [...]

Three veterans of Hollywood's promotion-design field have teamed to form Schematic, a new company that will provide design services to entertainment, technology and advertising companies in a digital world. If [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- In his public debut as CEO of the new, vastly enlarged Comcast Corp., Brian Roberts urged everyone -- especially his employees -- to tour the show floor [...]