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Monday, May 12, 2003
| Comcast's forthcoming PVR |
| USA Today: "Samsung will make decoders with built-in DVRs — which record TV shows to a hard drive, making them far easier to use than VCRs. Set-top units for other TVs will access that hard drive. Ucentric Systems will provide the software to sort through TV schedules and help users select shows to record. What makes the Comcast system different from DVRs such as those from TiVo and ReplayTV is its ability to piggyback on the cable system to create a home network. That eliminates the need for extra connections or equipment."
At long last, the personal video recorder (PVR) market is heating up. Tivo hired respected NBC exec Marty Yudkovitz as its president, AOL Time Warner is working on its Mystro service, Comcast has already launched some network-based PVR features, and now this. Among other things, I'm glad to see Ucentric get a big customer win. I wrote about them some time ago in Release 1.0, but was wondering if they would make it.
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| Cutting the cord |
| Wireless substitution (using a mobile phone as a primary line, and not subscribing to wired phone service) is a big deal for the telecom industry. It will get bigger.
Philadelphia Inquirer: "[T]elecom industry analysts estimate that 3 percent to 5 percent of all wireless users are cord cutters, a figure that could increase to 10 percent in the next few years. And for the highly mobile 18- to 30-year-old demographic, some predict that half of all cell-phone users will have some period in their lives when they will get along without an old-fashioned phone. Already, probably 10 percent of them live without them, said Keith Mallinson, an analyst with the Yankee Group, a market research firm specializing in telecommunications."
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