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Time for a new podcast here at The DMZ. Bringing together a love of music along with digital media news, DMZ Radio, hosted by Adam Thursby is a weekly look at the digital headlines mixed with the music that makes up the soundtrack of our lives. Each week, Adam will be covering the headlines from...
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Disclosure: While Adam Thursby does mention this in this article, we want to make it very clear that he is a cable technician for a national cable company. –Editor As of August 8th, cable TV operators that offer set-top boxes for self-install are required to allow customers to self-install...
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Do you stream, record or watch live? No matter how you consume your content, most of us can agree that the landscape is changing in regards to how content is pushed to our homes. Streaming is becoming more prevalent. More devices support it and as bandwidth penetration continues to grow, more...
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There seems to be a lot of confusion around the concepts of encryption and copy-protection when it comes to getting television from your content provider, so the DMZ is here to clear it up for you. Before we get into defining what encryption and copy-protection are we must point out one thing that...
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We used to have the full deal. Digital Cable and all the trimmings. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, you name it. Slowly, over the years we’ve cut back. This was mainly because we realized that we simply didn’t use the services we were paying for. We’re a movie family for sure, but we had...
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We’ve all talked about the things that we love and hate about the cable television industry. We love the content. We love HD video. We love high speed internet. We don’t like high prices, and limited options. So what if you had the opportunity to sit down with someone from a big cable...
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A new study has revealed that a full 26% of Americans have either changed their viewing habits or bought new equipment due to the digital television cutoff coming June 12th. Knowledge Networks has been tracking reaction to the digital transition since 2006; the new data, collected from February to...
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I’ve admitted on the show and here that I don’t have that really in depth knowledge when it comes to different signals, codecs, containers, etc.,etc.,etc. Luckily for us though, there is someone out there who does. We’ve talked about him on the Entertainment 2.0 podcast, as well...
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