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Coppergate Acquires HomePlug AV Assets of Conexant 07.May.2008 01:32 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Today Coppergate, the primary provider of HPNA 3.1 silicon, acquired the HomePlug AV assets from Conexant. Conexant, which continues to be parted out like a 67 Chevy (it announced the sale of its set-top box products to NXP last week), hasn't been much of a presence in HomePlug, selling some HomePl... [ read ] HomeGrid: Believe It or Not, Another Physical Layer Home Networking Standard 30.April.2008 10:06 AM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Yes, another standard to add to the large collection of phoneline, powerline and coax standards. Since I am on the road, I have yet to get briefed by the folks representing HomeGrid, the new standard, but I will definitely be interested to hear how and why they decided to start a new standard later ... [ read ] NAB Wrap-Up: Why NAB is Now the Most Important Show for Convergence (and not CES) 17.April.2008 01:25 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Got back from Vegas last night, and overall have to say it was a very good show. Lots of interesting stuff going on in the digital media space, with all of the large hardware, software and enabling technology vendors in the digital media food-chain working on getting this whole multi-platform world ... [ read ] The Blockbuster Box? No, thank you, but... 11.April.2008 12:07 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home This Ars article states the obvious, that we don't need another proprietary STB for a single service online video provider. If you haven't seen the gravestones littering the proprietary STB service graveyard, some of the names of the dearly departed include Akimbo's box and Moviebeam's among others.... [ read ] FubuHulu? Facebook Meets Hulu and I Like It 09.April.2008 06:49 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home I've been a fan of Hulu since beta, and my fondness for Facebook grows by the day. Imagine if the two meet! I actually stumbled across the new Facebook app today that allows for Hulu streamed video within Facebook. While not all of the shows are available, it has a pretty good selection. Now, I thi... [ read ] BBC iPlayer Bumps Usage of Streaming by 62% in one Month 09.April.2008 10:11 AM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home The launch of the iPlayer from the BBC is a great controlled experiment, because its a fairly ubiquitous launch in the UK since it left beta in December of 2007. Early indications were that it had done well from the very beginning, and now this blog from UK ISP Plus.Net show that traffic has spike... [ read ] Enough with the Apologies, Amazon, Stop Advertising The Kindle 20.March.2008 12:46 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home I found it humorous that Jeff Bezos had a front page apology for the inability to get Kindle's in everyone's hands. Meanwhile, they haven't stopped advertising the thing since it first shipped. I go to Amazon.com fairly frequently, and the Kindle has on the top of the site for the last few months. I... [ read ] News Flash: Microsoft Could Learn Something From Microsoft 19.March.2008 12:20 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home The recent news that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite had more than a few people scratching their heads, wondering why would Microsoft license a technology just as they are pushing their own competitor to Flash in Silverlight, which they are planning to bring to mobile later this year? Well, it ma... [ read ] Here Comes Hulu 12.March.2008 10:05 AM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home For those of you who haven't tinkered around with Hulu, I would suggest (if you live in the U.S, that is, the only geo its available at the moment) going over and trying it. Today it comes out of beta and is open to the public, and I think unless the site and its partner sites get crushed under the ... [ read ] R.I.P. HD-DVD 19.February.2008 03:48 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home While some say the death of HD-DVD was all but sealed when Warner Brothers announced just before CES this January they would move their high definition optical disk distribution entirely to Blu-ray, I think, as I said back in June of 2007, that the death knell for HD-DVD was actually when Blockbuste... [ read ] |
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