ANALYSIS Can your existing (paid for) set-tops be made useful?

By Stephen Sacks

Yes, but…IN THE MIDST OF TV OPERATORS moving to new h.264 adaptive bit-rate streaming devices, they’re faced with the serious issue of trying to still move forward with their legacy MPEG2 set-tops (for which they dearly paid).They understand the urgency to move quickly towards a compatible, side-by-side streaming solution that is easy to manage, but how can cablecos, telcos and ISPs make use of that mature technology as the video world accelerates ever-more quickly down its evolutionary path?Canadian operators have moved much slower toward streaming solutions than their American counterparts – as they believe subscriber losses are happening more slowly...