ZatzNotFunny's blog

You?ve had a long day at work, come home and want to see how your stocks and the market have been doing. Okay, maybe you don?t want to know at the moment given the current market conditions but bear with me? You sit down on you couch, fire up the HTPC TV and click on Your Stocks Plugin from the HTPC menu. A snapshot of your selected stocks and indexes for the day is provided right from the 10-foot interface using a new plugin for the SageTV HTPC software.

Todd Spangler at Multichannel broke the news this morning. Comcast is buying up to six million digital terminal adapters (DTAs) this year in an effort to migrate to all-digital broadcasts throughout 20% of its footprint in 2008. The DTAs are coming from Motorola (my employer), Pace and Thomson. DTAs work by converting QAM channels broadcast without encryption to analog signals.? They don’t include any conditional access technology, a program guide, or support two-way services such as VOD.