Does Comcast have the recipe for re-making television?
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Comcast's plan, as outlined Tuesday by CEO Brian Roberts, has the opportunity of literally changing television into the biggest consumer of data in the world's wired telecommunications system.
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When bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications begins eyeing bids for some or all of its cable systems, one heavyweight contender is likely to be a joint offer from Comcast Corp.
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Starting tomorrow, Comcast Corp. will begin marketing an enhanced cable box to New Englanders that will accelerate a revolution that is changing television-watching habits, and the television industry itself. The Motorola box, which includes a TiVo -style digital video recorder, will allow millions of subscribers to watch shows on their own schedule and skip through the advertisements.
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LOS ANGELES  - Bill Gates predicts a  future for the entertainment industry in which traditional  broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive  vision, however, because new and better business models made  possible by technology are emerging.
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LOS ANGELES  - An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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If the cable operator's efforts to partner with leading gadget makers are successful, those set-top boxes could be a thing of the past.Photo: Comcast's AnyPlay device
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A cable giant looks to the future of digital video.
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NEW YORK  - Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will try to show the cable industry has embraced innovation by unveiling initiatives today to promote new technology, speed Internet connections, help customers manage video options and expand HDTV selection.
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Microsoft has tuned up its software for service providers, but consumers shouldn't expect much in the near future.Photos: Is IPTV software ready for prime time?IPTV chugs along
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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Ma Bell finds new ways to make you pay for TV.
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A plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.
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By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.  Sep. 19--Cable television giant Comcast Corp. plans to open a  customer-service center in northwest Colorado Springs by year's end that  eventually could employ 400.
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All the headlines this morning make clear that Sony Corp. is buying one   of the most famous studios in Hollywood, but it's Comcast Corp. and the   future delivery of entertainment content that may make this corporate merger more meaningful to consumers.
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Networks hope to rejuvenate the genre by experimenting with new formats and unconventional storylines.
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An increasing number of television  viewers are producing their own shows, and the TV industry is  frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts,  Internet movies and home videos into one package.