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RetailREPORT: July 2, 2008
A Visit To Comcast's Heart of Darkness
They say you can never truly understand your enemy until you've spent a day walking around in their shoes.

Turns out the same thing holds true for pay TV providers.

With this in mind (and my eye on a HD-ready set-top for my new high-def TV) I dropped by my local Comcast payment center earlier this week to get a look at the cable giant's operation up close. (Relax, satellite folks. I don't have decent exposure at my house so I really don't have much of a choice.) »
 
MultiMAX: July 1, 2008
Competitive Landscapes
    Visited a couple of interesting places last week.
    The new Comcast Headquarters building in downtown Philadelphia.
    And lunch near the DIRECTV HQ opposite the LAX runways after spending the morning with TVN.
    Similar businesses ... »
 
SkyBOX: June 30, 2008
The Hidden Hippopotamus
Here are three items from Friday's Wall Street Journal, all pointing to the same hippo in hiding:

•  After three years of restructuring, Sony Corp. unveiled a "new growth strategy centered on video downloading and electronic products that can be connected to each other and to the internet." »
 
SkyFILES: June 26, 2008
SkyFILES: My Mixed DTV Bag
On May 2, I wrote that our family had received the government-funded coupon that provides $40 towards the purchase of a digital TV converter box.

Now, 56 days later, I can report that I have used the credit-card like device, with some mixed results.

I can't blame anyone who thinks that it took some time for me to eventually get to the store, look at the boxes and make my subsidized purchase. During that time, I had twice-weekly soccer practices and games with my daughter, traveled to visit family, took in some sweet Utah singletrack on a mountain bike trip, and continued to have my professional and personal life turned upside down by a satellite radio merger drama that may never end. »
 
Kable Kid: June 26, 2008
Kable Kid Explores Twitter
So what exactly is Twitter? According to the site: "Twitter is a service for friends, family and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

I joined twitter as KableKid and have been playing around for a while on it.  I've been trying to figure out exactly why I'd want to keep updating what I am doing.  It sort of reminds me of one of the crawls on a TV with sports updates, just with people.   »
 
 
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