Energy efficiency efforts are spreading among the range of industries involved in TV programming, said government officials, consumer electronics and multichannel video programming distributor executives and those aligned with groups seeking less electricity consumption. With the specter of U.S. regulation of set-top box energy efficiency comes private stakeholder discussions of ways to voluntarily give MVPD customers more efficient boxes, with cable, telco and satellite-TV deployments under way for years in some cases. Executives said MVPDs are moving from set-tops to Internet Protocol streaming to networked TV sets and other CE devices, reducing household energy use through increasing what’s stored in data centers and other company facilities. So operators try to use less energy in data centers, as TV stations cut electricity use, executives said.
Energy efficiency efforts are spreading among the range of industries involved in TV programming, said government officials, consumer electronics and multichannel video programming distributor executives and an advocate seeking less electricity consumption. With the specter of U.S. regulation of set-top box energy efficiency comes private stakeholder discussions of ways to voluntarily give MVPD customers more efficient boxes, with cable, telco and satellite-TV deployments under way for years in some cases. Executives said MVPDs are moving from set-tops to Internet Protocol streaming to networked TV sets and other CE devices, reducing household energy use through increasing what’s stored in data centers and other company facilities. So operators try to use less energy in data centers, as TV stations cut electricity use, executives said.
Energy efficiency efforts are spreading among the range of industries involved in TV programming, said government officials, CE makers and multichannel video programming distributor executives, as well as a green advocate. With the specter of U.S. regulation of set-top box energy efficiency comes private stakeholder discussions of ways to voluntarily give MVPD customers more efficient boxes, with cable, telco and satellite-TV deployments under way for years in some cases. Executives said MVPDs are moving from set-tops to Internet Protocol streaming to networked TV sets and other CE devices, reducing household energy use through increasing what’s stored in data centers and other company facilities. So operators try to use less energy in data centers, as TV stations cut electricity use, executives said.
Energy efficiency efforts are spreading among the range of industries involved in TV programming, said government officials, CE and multichannel video programming distributor executives and an advocate seeking less electricity consumption. With the specter of U.S. regulation of set-top box energy efficiency comes private stakeholder discussions of ways to voluntarily give MVPD customers more efficient boxes, with cable, telco and satellite-TV deployments under way for years in some cases.
Municipalities whose federal grants for public safety networks were suspended say they remain frustrated that, more than two months after the NTIA suspended seven municipal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grants, there’s no timetable to save them. Public safety advocates and NTIA encourage patience and wise tax spending, while leaders of some of the 700 MHz projects worry about what suspending the projects has done to safety and tax dollars, they said in interviews. A prominent former Seattle official is urging the FirstNet board, once established in August, to re-engage with the BTOP grantees and kickstart their projects as a potential answer to the limbo and sense of frustration.
A U.S. regulator gave more time to agree on set-top box energy efficiency standards among advocates at nonprofits seeking reduced energy use, and executives of consumer electronics companies and multichannel video programming distributors hoping to avoid rules. The executives said the talks on standards for set-tops have been fruitful, and they're hopeful conversations will pick up steam. The Department of Energy said Thursday it’s delaying a rulemaking schedule until after Oct. 1 to give the talks time to progress, and executives told us a fall time frame for a deal is reasonable.
A U.S. regulator gave more time to agree on set-top box energy efficiency standards among advocates at nonprofits seeking reduced energy use, and executives of CE companies and multichannel video programming distributors hoping to avoid rules. The executives said the talks on standards for set-tops have been fruitful, and they're hopeful conversations will pick up steam. The Department of Energy said Thursday it’s delaying a rulemaking schedule until after Oct. 1 to give the talks time to progress, and executives told us a fall time frame for a deal is reasonable.
A U.S. regulator gave more time to agree on set-top box energy efficiency standards among advocates at nonprofits seeking reduced energy use, and executives of consumer electronics companies and multichannel video programming distributors hoping to avoid rules. The executives said the talks on standards for set-tops have been fruitful, and they're hopeful conversations will pick up steam. The Department of Energy said Thursday it’s delaying a rulemaking schedule until Oct. 1 to give the talks time to progress, and executives told us a fall time frame for a deal is reasonable.
LOS ANGELES -- Nintendo President Satoru Iwata took to YouTube Sunday to tout enhanced features of the coming Wii U’s GamePad controller ahead of all the E3 news briefings. In addition to the previously announced touch-screen and motion controls, the GamePad was “redesigned and improved from its reveal” at last year’s E3, Nintendo said.
Comcast gave the FCC some additional documents about its proposed sale of advanced wireless service licenses to Verizon Wireless. The cable operator “recently discovered a small number of additional documents that are responsive to the Information and Discovery Request” made by the commission, Comcast said. They “were inadvertently omitted from the April 6 production,” which came after the company’s initial response on March 22, the operator’s filing posted Tuesday to docket 12-4 said (http://xrl.us/bm9q3w). “Comcast will make the non-public, Highly Confidential version of the submission available to authorized reviewing parties who have signed the Protective Orders.” The agency had paused its 180-day nonbinding clock to review Verizon Wireless’s purchase of AWS licenses from Comcast and three other cable operators for 21 days because the companies in the deals didn’t provide full information by the initial March 22 deadline (CD May 2 p1). The clock was at day 111 on Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bm9q3s).