Tag Archives: Cable

Scientific Atlanta… I Mean Cisco

According to Multichannel News, Cisco is retiring the Scientific Atlanta brand in favor of their own. At CES next week they will be unveiling their new line of STBs, which will carry the Cisco brand in place SciAtl. Cisco acquired … Continue reading

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Motorola Announces MPEG-4 Cable STBs

I recently posted about the pending shift from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for cable. Of course, part of that shift would have to be MPEG-4 capable cable set-top boxes. And now, according to MediaExperiences2Go, Motorola is ready to meet that need … Continue reading

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Cable Cranks Up The Propaganda

It’s that time again, the lead up to CES (which kicks off this weekend – I’ll be there) always sees a flood of press releases from all sides. The cable industry just dropped five press releases, which are mainly designed … Continue reading

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Cable Set To Move To MPEG-4 AVC/H.264

Cable is facing a bandwidth squeeze. As more and more channels go HD, cable is struggling to find the bandwidth necessary to carry them. There are four major ways cable systems can address the issue: Drop analog channels and reuse … Continue reading

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A Quick Way To Get More HD Resolutions From Your SciAtl HD STB

Don Reisinger at NewTeeVee has a quick tutorial on getting more HD resolutions out of your Scientific Atlanta cable STB. No hacking required, just a little back door into the configuration options. Pretty nifty. Via EngadgetHD.

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