Telecompetitor

While not exactly surprising news, but very ironic, Time Warner will spin off AOL into a separate company. Time Warner formally calls it a separation. “We believe that a separation will be the best outcome for both Time Warner and AOL. The separation will be another critical step in the reshaping of Time Warner that we started at the beginning of last year, enabling us to focus to an ...

Time Warner Cable has launched Start Over in its New York City market of Staten Island. Start Over allows customers to restart a program in progress without the need for an in-home DVR. The service is available on both standard and high definition channels. The service is offered free of charge to digital cable subscribers and is currently available on 40 channels.

Time Warner Cable is upping the ante on its Start Over technology, by extending it to HD channels. Start Over allows subscribers to come into a program after it has already started, and start it over from the beginning. Start Over was pioneered by Time Warner Cable, and many of their cable company brethren including Comcast and Brighthouse have embraced the technology ...

Bright House Networks announced the launch of a large Start Over deployment for its Tampa, FL market. Start Over, developed by Time Warner Cable, allows subscribers to start a program from the beginning if they start watching it after its already started. The technology allows subscribers to “start over” during a window of time equal to 2 ½ times the length of ...

Comcast will license Time Warner Cable’s “Start Over” technology, which allows subscribers to start a program over from the beginning within 30 minutes of the program’s start time. Time Warner has launched the service in multiple markets already. Comcast says testing will begin around mid year with commercial deployments taking place early in 2009. Start Over borrows digital video recorder (DVR) functionality and builds a ...

There are reports surfacing that the consortium of large MSOs that make up Pivot Wireless have begun strategizing their next move. That move probably does not involve Sprint, which recently announced they were halting Pivot deployments. This has to be considered a real blow to the likes of Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Advance/Newhouse, the Pivot consortium members. The AP is ...

Recent news does not bode well for the wireless joint venture between Sprint and several cable MSOs, branded as Pivot Wireless. Sprint announced during their quarterly analyst call that they are freezing the rollout of Pivot to any further markets due to “provisioning complexities.” In other words, they can’t get it to work, at least not without too much trouble. Both Sprint and its cable partners have publicly said ...

Time Warner Cable Business Class launched a NetVideo product, branded BusinessLink.tv targeting business customers with a 10 channel video line-up. The ten channels are delivered to a customer’s enterprise LAN via a cable modem. The ten channels include NY1 News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNBC, CNBC World, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, Fox Business News, and The Weather Channel. The initial deployment will ...

Time Warner Cable announced the launch of VOD in some of its smaller markets including Clarksburg, WV; Dothan, AL; Fort Benning, GA; and Terre Haute, IN. Time Warner will be using a new Tandberg VOD solution which is aimed at markets needing 2000 VOD streams or less. The new Tandberg system allows the local distribution of VOD content married with a centralized ...