IS OTT THE FUTURE OF TV? Charlie Ergen has never been afraid to gamble. From his youth, when he tried to build a career in playing blackjack and poker, to his founding of Dish Network, his bitter feud with Rupert Murdoch,…Continue Reading →
COMCAST REGIONAL SPORTS ON SLING TV To fend off a competitive threat from YouTube’s move into live TV, Sling TV saw the need to add value to its own video service. Last Thursday, Dish Network’s semi-independent streaming video platform announced…Continue Reading →
CONTENT IS KEY TO OUR FUTURE SUCCESS: AT&T Does a TV system need its own programming to compete successfully? AT&T evidently thinks so. John Stankey, the CEO of the AT&T Entertainment Group, says it’s not enough to own the infrastructure…Continue Reading →
NBC STREAMING VIDEO WITH AT&T When AT&T bought DirecTV last year, it promised an aggressive move into internet video streaming. The telecom giant took a big step in fulfilling that pledge a few months ago. It announced last March that…Continue Reading →
HIGHER DATA CAPS WITH AT&T Are you a heavy web surfer? Do you play interactive video games? Is your household likely to have multiple devices connected to the web at one time? Do you frequently download HD video? Do you…Continue Reading →
UNLIMITED DATA FROM AT&T Competition in the home internet market intensifies almost every passing month. AT&T is one of the first major internet service providers promising to lift data caps for certain subscribers. The telecom giant said it will launch…Continue Reading →
DOCSIS 3.1 Internet by Comcast Tuesday, February 2, 2016 marks an important milestone in the history of the internet. Comcast, the largest cable system operator in America, said it will offer the world’s first DOCSIS 3.1 service to business and…Continue Reading →
CHRISTMAS WITH BUNDLE DEALS You may be asking, “What can Bundle Deals do for my Christmas celebration?” In fact, we can do a great deal. Large screen TV sets, gaming consoles, smart phones, and Android and iOS tablets are popular…Continue Reading →
STREAMING VIDEO FROM CHARTER To borrow a line from Jimmy Durante: “Everybody’s gettin’ inta da act!” Dish Network’s February launch of Sling TV demonstrated the consumer appeal of an internet-only video streaming platform. And if imitation is the sincerest form…Continue Reading →
SHORT-FORM VIDEO ON COMCAST X1 If you’re like most people, you spend almost an hour every day watching internet video from YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo, and other sources. It’s not likely, though, that you’d use your cable box for streaming it….Continue Reading →