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		<title>Social Media – Linear TV’s Saviour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s admit it, we record everything, skip through commercial and watch what we want, when we want, where we want. TV is catching up to how we the users, want to consume content – on our terms. Traditional Linear TV is on a rapid decline. News and sports were once the provider’s saving grace as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=117&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet and TV… Google’s really saying, let’s work together.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much written in recent days to address comments made by Google’s Eric Schmidt.   Schmidt was quoted during his keynote speech from the 2011 Edinburgh TV festival as saying, within five years, “Virtually all the television manufacturers on their high end products will eventually adopt Google TV&#8230; or perhaps one of the competitors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=118&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are the Cable Companies banking on TV Everywhere to slow losses and reduce Cord Cutting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Cable and Telecom industries, Q2 is in the books and the market outlook for Q3 is not looking all that stable.  International markets have been mostly on the downward trend as the US had their AAA status revoked, and if unemployment follows this market trend, Q2 losses may not be easily made up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=108&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over-the-Top and Set-Top Integration &#8211; a potential game changing partnership?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Over-the-Top landscape has continued to both gain market momentum and video solution  credibility (I’ve seen projections as high as 20% of customer cutting the TV cord  in the near future) over the past four to five years.  This momentum has caused traditional Telcos and MSOs to take notice; I’m sure every service provider in North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=91&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generational Shift will impact Home Video Monitoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV Everywhere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Service providers are starting to take responsibility for the connected home, by default really, because the customers hold them accountable for the service end-to-end. And what they are responsible for now is only the tip of the iceberg… multi-devices and all. In a pre-IBC interview, Curtis Howe, Mariner President and CEO, is optimistic that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=77&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tunnel Vision</title>
		<link>http://themarinerblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/tunnel-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being in the IPTV industry plays funny tricks on one’s mind.  Most are quick to forget that, outside of the industry, very few people even know what IPTV is.  To the consumer, IPTV is brand names such as “Digital TV”, “U-verse TV”, “mioTV”, “OptikTV”, “FibreOp”, or simply “TV”; IPTV becomes whatever the service provider markets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=68&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Emergence of the 3rd Generation Telco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telcos across North America and Europe are making significant strides towards the evolution into their “3rd generation”. This 3rd generation is being characterized by capabilities and platforms that are truly open for business in terms of applications and services. That said, within the IPTV domain, many lingering challenges remain. The telcos, as do the cable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=42&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV Everywhere traction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As exciting as it may be to witness the traction TV Everywhere is getting at events such as IP&#38;TV World Forum 2011, this industry is still in its infancy. Some middleware moguls’ infrastructure lack the flexibility for Service Providers to enable remote PVR programming from a smart device while other features require so much integration that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=19&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewership analytics across all devices</title>
		<link>http://themarinerblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/over-the-top-ott-and-video-monitoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of video analytics and business intelligence for the TV industry is changing rapidly as the TV broadcasting world converges into IP Video – attempting to catch up with the rise of internet video/TV. The challenge once faced by Telcos is now also faced by cable companies. They too, must modernize to thrive. With [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=11&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Service-Assured IPTV is Helping Local Telcos Reclaim Competitive Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The TV Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ever changing communications marketplace, product and service bundles are now mandatory for retaining customers and growing revenues. TV has become a must have for telcos, large and small, to compete effectively for market share in the communications and entertainment markets. Local telcos are unique in that they enjoy strong brand recognition amongst a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themarinerblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3652715&amp;post=5&amp;subd=themarinerblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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