Dave Zatz Comcast recently commissioned a study that concluded their HD picture quality is superior to DirecTV and Dish, following it up with full page ads in 15 newspapers and radio spots planned. The study was conducted in March, with 309 subjects showed side-by-side images from DirecTV, Dish and Comcast on identical TV sets. To eliminate set … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs. Xbox and Apple TV – TV Boxes at Retail: Connected Home 2 Go TiVo’s New Ad Blitz Focuses On Personalization: Davis Freeberg Time Warner Earnings: Connected Home 2 Go To Flash or Not To Flash: Connected Home 2 Go
Both Hilton Hotels and American Airlines announced this week they are ramping up programs to entertain their traveling clientele. First up, American Airlines revealed they will be running a four month pilot (pun!) program in which business/first class customers will be loaned Archos 704 PMPs and Bose QuietComfort headsets. Don’t worry, though — us working … Read more
No sooner am I reminded of Infrant’s NAS solutions, do I discover that my friends at Netgear just announced that they will be acquiring them. This should be a win/win in providing Netgear more robust storage solutions while pushing Infrant’s technology into mainstream retail locations… and maybe at lower price points.
Wondering how much the new My TiVo Gets Me television, print, and web advertising “blitz” costs? According to the NY Times: more than $15 million. Yowza! The Times also reports the ad agency behind this campaign (in which everyone gets TiVo antennae) as Kaplan Thaler, who we probably know from the Aflac duck and women … Read more
Like most folks I’ve talked to, my digital media backup situation is less than ideal. I’ve got pictures, video, and music scattered all over the place — across operating systems, CD, DVD, internal hard drives, external hard drives, etc. (At least I got the Zip disks out of the mix a couple years ago.) Most … Read more
XM updates their signage.
We’ve got FiOS questions, and the Verizon Policy Blog‘s got answers. A few weeks ago ZNF was given to opportunity to participate in quizzing Brian Whitton, Executive Director of Access Network Design and Integration for Verizon. So Mari, Davis, and I plus a few readers submitted questions. My question: The Verizon FiOS TV franchise was … Read more