Cable- Tec 2011: Bandwidth consumption a worry as new devices proliferate

By Alan Breznick

ATLANTA – Although the Apple iPad is not yet two years old, consumers are already beginning to treat it like a smaller TV set, at least in their video viewing patterns. Matt Zelesko, senior vice president of web services for Time Warner Cable, made that observation during the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo show here earlier this week. Speaking on a breakfast panel hosted by Multichannel News, Zelesko said subscribers to Time Warner’s new iPad app tend to leave the application running as if the tablet were a mini-TV, keeping it on as background entertainment while they carry out other tasks. “People...