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Comcast Offers Basic Cable TV for $10 or Free with a Voice or Broadband Bundle
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 10, 2008]
Comcast attempts to appeal to the lower end of the market by
introducing $10 basic cable TV service targeted at consumers
that will soon be affected by the digital broadcast transition,
but it seems more of a PR move than a competitive threat.
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Google Debuts New YouTube Sales Channel for Apple and Amazon Online Music Services
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 09, 2008]
YouTube is a huge success at attracting online users, and
finally Google is serious about making it yield ad revenues.
New deals with Apple and Amazon could attract impulse buyers to
click to download a song found through watching a YouTube video.
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Time Warner Cable Brings Interactive Web Content to Its TV Screen in Hawaii
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 09, 2008]
Time Warner Cable and ActiveVideo have deployed a service that
brings Web content and interactivity directly to the TVs of
Oceanic subscribers in Hawaii. The service streams traditional
and Web-based content to an existing digital set-top box.
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TiVo and Nero Team Up to Offer DVR Advanced Services through the PC
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 08, 2008]
Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC solution is an alternative to using a
TiVo DVR box to enable recording TV shows with the TiVo look
and feel via a computer. It has a limited appeal to a small
portion of consumers who like a PC controlling their TV sets.
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VUDU Launches a New High-definition Format Called HDX: Creating Added Value or Perplexity?
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 03, 2008]
VUDU tried to gain market relevance via the high-definition
craze by developing a new format called HDX. Close to Blu-ray
quality, HDX seeks to lure high-end digital home consumers to
buy VUDU boxes with advanced picture and audio quality.
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Netflix Continues to Bolster Its Video Streaming Service with Complimentary Movies from Starz
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 02, 2008]
Netflix saves the Starz Play streaming platform (a.k.a. Vongo)
by adding its library of premium Starz movies into its online
video service for free for most Netflix DVD rental members. Yet
Netflix still can’t offer new DVD movie releases online.
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Sprint’s XOHM Launches Competitive WiMAX Broadband Alternative to DSL and Cable in Baltimore
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Oct 01, 2008]
XOHM launches a WiMAX broadband
service in Baltimore with
pricing, speeds, and features that are
competitive with offers
from DSL and cable, and superior to 3G
alternatives. But
availability is limited in other metros
through 2009 and
beyond.
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AT&T Selects DIRECTV as Future Video Partner, Soon Says Bye-bye to DISH Networks
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 30, 2008]
AT&T selected DIRECTV over DISH to offer satellite video beyond
January 2009. It will honor service agreements with existing
DISH customers after the switch, but U-verse TV remains the
ultimate AT&T video service lead offer where available.
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MySpace Music Goes Live, Offering Free Music Streaming with Ads and Selling Amazon’s MP3s
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 26, 2008]
After much anticipation and hype, MySpace Music launches with
free streaming of songs from the four largest record labels as
well as outsourcing paid downloads via Amazon. Yet Apple will
still rule the music market for a long while.
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Netflix Improves Video Streaming Library with CBS and Disney TV Shows
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 24, 2008]
Netflix is increasing the video content accessible via its
streaming service with new rights to TV shows from CBS and
Disney. Yet, Netflix’s primarily business will remain DVD
rentals without significantly more online content.
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AT&T Adds a Fourth Screen to Its Three Screen Strategy with HomeManager Phone System
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 23, 2008]
AT&T launches HomeManager, an innovative home phone system
targeting the “hectic family.” The system combines access to
Internet content and popular wireless phone applications with
traditional home phone service.
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Comcast Discloses Details on New Network Management Practices to Ease FCC Scrutiny
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 23, 2008]
Comcast is trying to correct its wrongs by outlining a new
network management policy keeping broadband access open to all
Internet destinations while simultaneously reducing network
congestion by temporarily reducing speeds of high-demand
users.
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Best Buy to Acquire Napster, Expanding its Online Presence and Bundle Options
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 17, 2008]
Best Buy plans to acquire Napster for $67 million. Best Buy
gains 700,000 Napster online music subscribers and may use
Napster’s platform technology to develop its own content
service, providing a “one stop shop” for device and content
customers.
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EarthLink Surprisingly Expands Cable Broadband Reach in Los Angeles and Dallas
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 12, 2008]
EarthLink, still freezing its marketing efforts to attract new
customers with a greater focus on customer retention, has
announced a shocker by expanding its broadband reach to more
cable customers in the metro areas of Dallas and Los Angeles.
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TiVo Supersizes its HD Storage Capacity with its New Pricey TiVo HD XL DVR, but Still for Cable Customers Only
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 11, 2008]
The TiVo HD XL DVR comes with jaw dropping storage capacity of
up to 150 hours of HD content along with TiVo’s latest online
features like Amazon movie downloads. Few will buy it with a
high price of $600 and its incompatible with satellite TV.
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AT&T Further Differentiates U-verse TV with Total Home DVR
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 10, 2008]
AT&T launched Total Home DVR for U-
verse TV, letting users
watch up to five HD programs
simultaneously throughout the
home: two live programs and three
recorded programs. It can
record up to four programs at once on a
single DVR… and it’s
free.
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Cox Offers Its Broadband Customers a Safe Place for Their Personal Files
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 09, 2008]
Cox is beginning to supply its broadband customers with new
back-up software from Casero. The free software offers an easy
way to safeguard and share personal files such as photos and
home movies, but it needs to become available in more markets.
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DIRECTV and TiVo Rekindle Relationship with New HD DVR Box, But It’s Not Arriving Until H2 2009
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 05, 2008]
DIRECTV in H2 2009 will correct its error of ending its
relationship with TiVo by once again selling DVR service with
TiVo software through a new HD DVR box. Yet a year wait is more
time for cable to continue to swallow up more DVR market share.
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Verizon Extends Yahoo! Portal Partnership and Adds in Revenue Sharing
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 05, 2008]
Verizon Communications and Yahoo!
announced a new multiyear
agreement to provide an integrated co-
branded Verizon-Yahoo!
portal as a preferred starting point for
new Verizon broadband
subscribers. But what about wireless
integration?
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Internet Usage Caps: Problem or Solution?
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Sep 05, 2008]
Faced with increasing demand for Internet delivered video,
broadband providers are grappling with how to manage content
downloads burdening their networks. Usage caps are one option,
but they may become more of a problem than a solution.
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AT&T Launches Nationwide In-Home Service Supporting PCs, Networks, Peripherals, and Home Theaters
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Aug 22, 2008]
AT&T launches ConnecTech, a 50-state home services program with
remote and in-home tech support from home theater installation
to computers, peripherals, and home network help. The support
plus service one-ups all in-region competitors.
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AT&T Quietly Stops Selling CallVantage to New Customers
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Aug 18, 2008]
AT&T quietly stopped offering CallVantage to new subscribers:
shoppers are greeted with a message that the company is not
accepting new orders. Critics will interpret this as more
evidence that standalone VoIP is becoming irrelevant.
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VUDU Attempts to Spark Interest with Select Movie Downloads for Just $0.99
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Aug 14, 2008]
VUDU is trying to generate buzz by
offering 99 movies for just
$0.99 each. With a high price for the
equipment, VUDU will be
hard-pressed to survive in this
increasingly competitive
digital home category: online video.
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AT&T U-verse TV is Ready for Some Football with New Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Feature
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Aug 08, 2008]
AT&T wants to score with a new NFL feature offering access to
Yahoo! fantasy football scores while simultaneously watching
live games on U-verse TV. Still the undefeated NFL premier
provider is DIRECTV offering access to all the games.
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HD Battle Rages On with DISH to Offer 1080p HD Movies First Along with More HD Channels
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Aug 01, 2008]
DISH reaches the mark of over 100 HD channels and beats DIRECTV
by a few months in offering movies in 1080p format. Questionable
if there is real demand for that many channels in HD when the
popularity of many of these new channels is minute.
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The VuNow POD Is the Latest Web Delivery Set-top Box Attempting to Break Through
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 31, 2008]
Another Web delivery set-top box called the VuNow POD is
promising to deliver movie downloads and YouTube directly to
the TV. A start-up that can beat Apple and spark greater
consumer interest in over the Internet video faces steep odds.
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DIRECTV Hypes More HD Channels En Route - Raising Its Total HD Channel Count to 130
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 29, 2008]
DIRECTV cranks up its hype machine and touts more HD channels
coming by mid-August. Thirty more HD channels is an
improvement, but some consumers may be happy with existing HD
choices and not care about 100 plus HD channels.
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Verizon Launches an Aggressive $94.99 FiOS Triple Play in New York City
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 28, 2008]
Verizon launched a FiOS triple play priced
at $94.99 a month in
New York City, with FiOS Internet at 20/5
Mbps Freedom
Essentials and 54 HD FiOS TV channels.
With only 25% NYC FiOS
network coverage, Verizon is just getting
started.
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Verizon Upgrades FiOS Broadband Home Router Speeds and Management Capabilities
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 25, 2008]
Verizon’s plans to upgrade FiOS with new
routers supplied by
Actiontec and Westell will soon allow it to
put pressure on its
cable competitors. It raises the bar by
increasing in-home
speeds, bandwidth management, and
service options.
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Cisco to Acquire Pure Networks to Enhance Its Home Networking Management Solutions
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 24, 2008]
Cisco plans to acquire Pure Networks because as home
networks become more
complex, consumers need the easy-to-use networking
management tools it offers.
Cisco can use the acquired expertise to extend Pure’s tools
across its portfolio.
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Time Warner Cable to Give Road Runner Portal an Online Video Overhaul Thanks to Comcast
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 23, 2008]
TWC is getting serious, offering its
broadband subscribers more
online video content via its new
partnership with thePlatform,
which is a broadband video management
outfit owned by Comcast.
It has not revealed the launch date and
specifics.
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Verizon Gets Final Regulatory Approval to Offer FiOS TV to 3.1 Million Homes in New York City
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 17, 2008]
Verizon cleared the final regulatory
hurdle to offering FiOS TV
to 3.1 million New York City homes when
the New York State PSC
approved its video franchise application.
Verizon will
complete the NYC FiOS build within six
years.
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Sony Enhances the PlayStation3 with the New Capability to Download Movies and TV Shows
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 16, 2008]
Sony expands the functionality of the PS3 video gaming platform
to now download movies and TV shows. Yet the initial selection
of content is slim and this does not solve Sony’s issue of not
being a larger force in online services.
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Microsoft Will Give Xbox 360 Owners Access to Netflix Online Content in Fall 2008
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 15, 2008]
Microsoft and Netflix announced at the E3 video game convention
that Xbox LIVE members will soon be able to access Netflix
streamed movies and TV shows. But Xbox 360 owners will have to
be patient, as it is not launching until late 2008.
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Cisco’s New Linksys Router (WRT610N) Packs a Punch with Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 08, 2008]
Cisco’s Linksys division rolls out a router
that effectively
handles the wireless home networking of
HD video through its
simultaneous dual-band 802.11n design
that pushes lower-
bandwidth devices to a different radio
channel for max
performance.
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DIRECTV Rolls Out Its New On-demand Service Nationwide, Requires Its DVR Box and a Broadband Connection
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 02, 2008]
DIRECTV on Demand is the satellite
company’s answer to cable
video on demand offerings with anytime
access and a decent
amount of programming. However, it
does not use satellite
technology, relying instead on a
customer’s broadband service.
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Is AT&T Breaking Up with DISH Network and Getting Back Together with DIRECTV?
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jul 02, 2008]
AT&T sent notice to DISH Network its five-
year partnership will
end at the turn of the year. It is anyone’s
guess what this
means with a potential bidding war
emerging between DIRECTV and
DISH to win AT&T’s business in 2009.
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T-Mobile Takes its $10 a Month Unlimited Domestic Calling Landline Service National
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jun 26, 2008]
T-Mobile will offer its wireless customers nationwide the
chance to add-on a home landline via a VoIP connection for just
$10 a month. But the catch is subscribers must be a T-Mobile
wireless customer and get broadband access from someone else.
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NXTcomm 2008: Verizon Expands 50 Mbps /20 Mbps Offer Across FiOS Footprint and Upgrades FiOS Basic Tier to 10 Mbps /2 Mbps
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| Show Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jun 20, 2008]
Verizon is extending its highest FiOS speeds to its entire FiOS
service area, and increasing speeds for its entry level tier.
The improvements give Verizon the speed and price edge against
most MSOs, but that may change as DOCSIS 3.0 is deployed.
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Verizon Bundles DSL and FiOS with Wireless Voice to Capture Customers Who Don’t Want Wireline Voice
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jun 18, 2008]
Verizon is offering a discount to its wireless customers who
buy a Verizon wired broadband connection without a wireline
voice. Where available, FiOS TV can be added to create a new
triple-play deal. The plan saves customers up to $15 a month.
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Verizon Follows Through this Summer with Its Commitment for More FiOS TV Channels
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Jun 06, 2008]
Verizon FiOS TV fires back in the ongoing HD channel count
battle with cable and satellite with another 25 HD channels
coming in July 2008. To surpass satellite TV’s lead in HD
channels, Verizon promises to offer 150 HD channels by year’s
end.
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Verizon Expands Relationship with Starz to Offer More Broadcast Channels and New Online Access to Movies
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 29, 2008]
Verizon signs a deal with Starz Entertainment to offer its FiOS
TV and broadband subscribers more movie channels and new
downloadable access to the wealth of Starz movies playable on a
PC or select portable video players.
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Time Warner Spins Off Time Warner Cable, Leaving TWC Fully Independent But with a $9 Billion Debt
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 23, 2008]
Time Warner, Inc. and Time Warner Cable have agreed to a
complete separation giving TWC added flexibility for new
initiatives. However, with a $9.25 billion dividend payable to
its parent company, TWC will be burdened with substantial debt.
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Netflix’s Streaming Video Service Crosses Over to the TV via the New Roku Set-top Box
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 22, 2008]
Netflix’s new broadband device can stream movies on a
television for only $99 for the equipment with no extra service
fees. But there is no HD content and overall Netflix’s online
selection is skimpy compared to its vast DVD library.
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Comcast Buys Plaxo, Adding Social Networking to its Interactive Media Mix
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 16, 2008]
Comcast is buying Plaxo, bring its
partner’s address book
capabilities in-house and opening the
door to add Plaxo Pulse
social networking capabilities to the
Comcast set-top box. But
can it succeed with so many other
concurrent initiatives?
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Vonage Double Play Coming Soon Thanks to a New DSL Partnership with Covad >>
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 12, 2008]
Vonage will soon offer broadband through a new partnership with
Covad. Its customers will soon no longer need a separate
broadband provider to power their unlimited VoIP service, but
cable’s ongoing push into VoIP minimizes its potential.
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Cablevision Is Building a Footprint-wide WiFi Network to Offer Free Access to Optimum Online Subscribers
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 12, 2008]
Cablevision is building a WiFi network
throughout the company’s
cable footprint, offering free access to
Optimum Online
customers, a feature that FiOS does not
offer, but it could
face 4G competition when it is complete
in two years.
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Sprint, Clearwire and Partners Invest Billions to Deliver Nationwide Mobile Internet Services over WiMAX
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 09, 2008]
Sprint and Clearwire join to offer a WiMAX based mobile
broadband service that delivers equally well to consumers at
home and remotely. Google, Comcast and Time Warner Cable join
in but most consumers will have to wait until 2010.
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ZeeVee Announces ZvBox to ‘‘Localcast’’ PC Content onto Multiple HDTVs
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 06, 2008]
ZeeVee is a start-up trying to overcome
the challenge of getting PC content such
as online video streaming onto HDTVs
throughout the home. The new
approach, called “localcasting,” is
inventive, but it is uncertain if the ZvBox
will catch on.
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Microsoft Drops Bid to Acquire Yahoo!: Now What?
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 05, 2008]
Microsoft has walked away from its bid to acquire Yahoo!
following a disagreement over Yahoo!’s future value—but either
party may come back to the table. Meanwhile, Google and other
competitors will benefit from the decision and ongoing drama.
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Apple Hastens iTunes Movies Release Dates to Match the Debut of Movies in DVD Format
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [May 02, 2008]
Apple is getting more aggressive with its
movie download
business, with new iTunes Movies
available for purchase the
same day as the DVD release date. Yet,
this new release date
policy does not apply to iTunes movie
rentals.
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Charter Launches High-Speed Internet Max with up to 16 Mbps Downstream; Initially Limited to Wisconsin Customers
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 29, 2008]
Charter turns up its speed dial with a new broadband service
offering up to 16 Mbps downstream. Right now the launch is
confined to Wisconsin customers with their other option being
AT&T DSL with a maximum of just 6 Mbps downstream.
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Qwest Throws a Fastball at Cable with a New 20 Mbps ADSL2+, but it is Too Pricey to Attract Many Broadband Heavy Hitters
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 25, 2008]
Qwest rolls out its fastest DSL services via ADSL2+ technology
called Qwest Connect Titanium and Qwest Connect Quantum with
downstreams of 12 Mbps and 20 Mbps, respectively. But it comes
with a high price and unimpressive upstream speeds.
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Pivot Dropped by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse; Sprint's Out of the Quad Play Pool
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 24, 2008]
Sprint's Pivot is gone after Comcast, Time
Warner Cable and
Brighthouse follow Cox’s lead, and drop
support for the
service, leaving the MSO partners with no
wireless play. Pivot
customers can opt for a conventional
Sprint plan.
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Cox Stops Pivot Sales to New Customers: First Shoe to Drop on the Sprint and MSO Joint Venture?
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 23, 2008]
Cox stops selling Pivot to new customers, but will support
existing accounts and is considering its wireless options.
Will other Pivot partners follow the Cox lead or work with
Sprint to fix Pivot’s problems?
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DIRECTV Plans to Buy Installation Partner, 180 Connect
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 21, 2008]
DIRECTV intends to have more control over how it delivers
service installations and upgrades by buying one its major
install partners, 180 Connect. The deal is due to be completed
in Q3 2008.
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Yahoo!’s Flickr Offers Video Uploads in Addition to Photos, Posing No Threat to YouTube
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 10, 2008]
Yahoo!’s Flickr advances its functionality from just a photo-
sharing community to now allowing pay users to also upload video
clips. It is a useful new feature for Flickr members, but not
dynamic enough to cause YouTube to lose sleep over it.
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MySpace Announces Its Intentions to Sell Music Downloads with the Three Top Record Labels Onboard
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 07, 2008]
MySpace prepares to take on the online music giant, Apple, by
soon enabling its online community to buy music downloads
directly within individual user home pages. The MySpace
unrestricted model could put Rhapsody and Napster out of
business.
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Comcast Launches 50/5 Mbps Wideband Service in Twin Cities Using DOCSIS 3.0
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 04, 2008]
Comcast launched a high-speed Internet
service with the
nation’s first DOCSIS 3.0 commercial
deployment in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul region with up to 50
Mbps down and 5 Mbps
up for $149.95 a month—matching FiOS
downstream and besting DSL
speeds.
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AT&T U-verse TV Customers Can Now Turn to Channel 91 for Their Flickr Photos
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 03, 2008]
AT&T U-verse TV expands its usability by integrating Yahoo!’s
Flickr online photo service so that it is readily accessible on
its own designated TV channel. AT&T is starting to show the
competitive advantage of its IPTV service compared to cable.
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FairPoint Completes the Purchase of Wireline Markets in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont from Verizon
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Apr 01, 2008]
After a 14-month grind, Verizon
completed its spin-off of local
access lines in Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont to
FairPoint. Regardless of any negative
factors, FairPoint is
now ensconced as the carrier of last
resort in northern New
England.
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AT&T Replaces DIRECTV in Southeast Region with DISH Satellite Video Plans for New Customers
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 31, 2008]
AT&T quietly drops its DIRECTV
partnership for new sales in its
southeast region, deferring to DISH as its
only satellite TV
bundle partner. Most new customers will
see little difference,
but existing DIRECTV subscribers may be
confused.
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Verizon Upgrades Its Security Software, But Unclear If It Can Sway Customers to Buy
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 27, 2008]
Verizon beefs up its security suite to provide enhanced software
for fraud protection and better PC performance. But Verizon will
be challenged to convince customers its offer is superior to
software solutions already available from others.
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TiVo Offers a New Solution to Port Online Videos to the Television
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 20, 2008]
TiVo takes its Desktop Plus application to the next level by
not only porting recorded TV content to other devices, but now
its users can also transfer online videos from the PC to the
TiVo box. However, Mac users are out of luck for now.
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Apple’s Upgraded AirPort Express Wireless Router Takes iTunes to the Nth Degree
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 19, 2008]
Apple creates another elegant device to
try to make
transferring data around the home a little
easier. The compact
AirPort Express was upgraded to 802.11n
with a built-in
solution to connect legacy stereos
wirelessly to iTunes stored
on a home PC.
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Hulu Goes Public with Free Premium Online Video from NBC, FOX, and Many Others
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 13, 2008]
Hulu, after a year in the waiting,
publically launched to
stream TV shows and movies online from
over 50 providers
including Hulu’s founders, News Corp.
and NBC Universal. It
remains unknown if users will find the
ads annoying and go
elsewhere.
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MSO v. Telco: 2007 Winners and Losers by the Numbers
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Mar 07, 2008]
In 2007 the MSOs were ahead in the battle for triple play
penetration, despite a strong showing by AT&T and Verizon. If
Charter, Comcast and Time Warner Cable achieve the same success
as Cablevision or Cox then the telcos are in for tough 2008.
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The Remaining Barriers Preventing Big Online Video Profits
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Feb 26, 2008]
Accessing video through the Internet has boomed, but correctly
monetizing it as a long-term business model remains a
challenge. Internet companies are trying to offer a better
experience than cable and satellite providers that do a good
job today.
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T-Mobile Launches Landline VoIP Trial with $10 a Month Unlimited Domestic Calling
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Feb 25, 2008]
T-Mobile launches a landline VoIP service for its qualified
wireless customers in Dallas and Seattle, besting other
wireline voice plans by up to $35 a month. But the two year
contract and $200 early termination fee may fly in the wireline
world.
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AT&T Adds Value to Its WiFi Service with Free Access to Its Broadband Customers at Starbucks
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Home - U.S.
- [Feb 13, 2008]
AT&T is making its recent promotion of
free AT&T WiFi with
select DSL and U-verse offers more
appealing by forging a new
deal to grant these customers free
access to a WiFi connection
in 7,000 Starbucks stores.
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