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January 31, 2006
DVB Project
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project
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Interactive TV Web
Your source for MHP, OCAP, ACAP, and JavaTV information
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A technical (and non-technical) guide to DSM-CC
Digital TV, DVB and ATSC Tutorials - The Interactive TV Web
Many people in the DTV industry have only a basic understanding of DSM-CC, and sometimes not even that. For MHP and OCAP developers, it's a technology that you need to know something about. It's not necessary to know all of the details, but a general idea of what goes on and why is essential to building applications that work well and load quickly.
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DSM-CC and service information
Digital TV, DVB and ATSC Tutorials - The Interactive TV Web
It's not enough to simply broadcast DSM-CC carousels or streams as part of your service - a receiver needs to know what that data is, and how it can find it. To this end, DSM-CC has defined a number of additions to service information that are used to describe the data that is being broadcast.
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DSM-CC FAQ
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NCTA
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
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Scientific-Atlanta - Whitepapers
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TWC OCAP, SARA, etc.
Communications Engineering�&�Design: October, 2005 - Breaking away
"...Time Warner Cable’s decision to migrate to in-house navigation products, and to eventually phase out Passport and Scientific-Atlanta’s SARA platform..."
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January 30, 2006
Open DRM
Media and Rights Management
Leonardo Chiariglione – CEDEO.net
Leonardo is a big component for open DRM standards and cross-device operability. Founder of the Digital Media Project (http://www.dmpf.org/open/index.html).
Good sources on the history of rights referenced (see links at bottom)
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January 26, 2006
MoCA
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA for short) has been formed as non-profit mutual benefit corporation to develop and promote specifications for the transport of digital entertainment and information content over in-home coaxial cable.
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Society of Cable Tele Engineers
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OCAP Primer
CTAM and CableLabs created this OpenCable Primer, written by veteran cable writers Leslie Ellis and Craig Leddy, to provide answers — in plain English — to key OCAP questions. Through the primer you’ll learn how OCAP is being used to:
* establish a national (and perhaps international) platform to easily deploy new interactive TV content and features;
* ensure that a programming network’s interactive content will run on different cable systems, set-top boxes and consumer electronics devices;
* give content developers a standard, cost-effective way to “write once, run anywhere;”
* extend copyright-protected content and network brands across more digital devices;
* support a retail market for digital TVs, set-top boxes and new gadgets;
* and open new revenue streams for interactive advertising, subscriptions, transactions and other business opportunities.
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SPECS newsletter from CableLabs
SPECS News & Technology from CableLabs� is a newsletter for member companies that is of general interest to the cable industry and lay audiences. The newsletter contains articles about on-going research and emerging technologies, and describes their relevance to cable operators. It also summarizes industry-related and corporate events.
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Cable Navigation Systems
Avoiding analysis paralysis - 6/1/2005 - CED - CA603787
Because of the growing number of linear video channels, video-on-demand titles, and application choices becoming available to cable consumers, it's fair to say that industry would do well to heed the warnings presented in Barry Schwartz's book, The Paradox of Choice.
For cable, the problem with current navigation technology will only become more apparent as choices creep higher and higher. But emerging interactive program guide (IPG) features, as well as entirely new navigation systems, are on the way to help viewers find that needle in the haystack or that diamond in the rough.
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January 23, 2006
Digital Radio
Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too.
The radio industry, like broadcast television before it, is switching to digital technology.
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Music Licensing-Wikipedia
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January 18, 2006
FCC - IBOC
FCC's site on In-Band On Channel Digital Radio
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Open Cable and OCAP
The OpenCableTM initiative, managed by the Advanced Platforms and Services group at CableLabs, was begun in 1997 with a goal of helping the cable industry deploy interactive services over cable.
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Verizon Says Google, Microsoft Should Pay For Internet Apps
"When we offered 800 numbers, our network got flooded and we responded by choking the network," Seidenberg said, adding that the company then negotiated with 800-service providers to help pay for their usage in a manner that made sense for both parties.
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/news
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Internet Freeloaders
Internet Freeloaders - Should Google have to pay for the bandwidth it consumes? By Adam L. Penenberg
If the telcos and cable companies get their way, we'll have a Balkanized Web. Content providers who can afford to pay for premium service will market superior products to consumers with fast connections. Everyone else will make do with second-class companies at second-class speeds.
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January 11, 2006
Korn Sells a Stake in Itself
The band's new deal with the nation's biggest concert promoter redefines how the revenue pie is split in the music business.
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