“Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) will deploy video gateways later this year that will contain a DVR with six tuners and 1 terabyte of storage, COO Rob Marcus said Thursday on the company’s second-quarter earnings call.
The gateways will be able to transcode traditional cable channels delivered in QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) into IP video, and deliver video to IP-based devices ranging from gaming consoles to connected TVs.”
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“‘There will be no reason for Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) to exist in the future.’
So says the National Inflation Association (NIA) in its 58-page TV Everywhere Stock Suggestions Report issued Aug. 6. The report’s overall conclusion is that TV Everywhere will conquer Netflix and other OTT competition by allowing consumers to ‘watch just about all of the programming Netflix has available, plus a lot more.’”
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“Not only are tablets emerging as a new class of devices in their own right, shipment numbers indicate that they might even overtake personal computers in the near future. In Q3 of 2011, Apple shipped 15.4 million iPad tablets, more than the total volume of personal computers sold by each of PC heavyweights HP, Dell and Lenovo. More recently, in Q2 of 2012, Apple shipped 17 million iPad tablets globally out of 24.9 million tablets in total (Android tablets accounted for 7.3 million of those).”
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