1993
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Early stages of first CableNET, Anaheim. -
Tom Kalil of the Clinton White House at Summer Conference. -
Time Warner Cable's Walt Ciciora honored as TAC chair.
Voice
February 1993: CableLabs Board of Directors and its Telecom Subcommittee chaired by Mark Coblitz of Comcast concludes that research should be done into wired telephony and other potential telecom services in addition to PCS. CableLabs also hosted a PCS conference in Boulder, and issued an RFP on PCS technology.
Video
1993: CableLabs contributes service provider point of view to the creation of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 digital video compression standards.
September 1993: The Advanced Advertising Task Force publishes "An Information Processing Platform for the Cable Television Advertising Business". It details a set of suggested "data elements" for a system that would interconnect ad agencies and cable operators.
Data
August 1993: CableLabs initiates an effort to initiate cable's move to the Internet with an internal working group. The annual summer conference that month was themed after the Electronic Superhighway and included demonstration of Internet data transport.
Early History
1993: First CableNET exhibit, co-hosted by CableLabs and the California Cable Television Association (CCTA).
Network
1993: CableLabs selects lab to establish test procedures for TV/VCR tuner performance.
February 1993: CableLabs Board of Directors and its Telecom Subcommittee chaired by Mark Coblitz of Comcast concludes that research should be done into wired telephony and other potential telecom services in addition to PCS. CableLabs also hosted a PCS conference in Boulder, and issued an RFP on PCS technology.
Video
1993: CableLabs contributes service provider point of view to the creation of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 digital video compression standards.
September 1993: The Advanced Advertising Task Force publishes "An Information Processing Platform for the Cable Television Advertising Business". It details a set of suggested "data elements" for a system that would interconnect ad agencies and cable operators.
Data
August 1993: CableLabs initiates an effort to initiate cable's move to the Internet with an internal working group. The annual summer conference that month was themed after the Electronic Superhighway and included demonstration of Internet data transport.
Early History
1993: First CableNET exhibit, co-hosted by CableLabs and the California Cable Television Association (CCTA).
Network
1993: CableLabs selects lab to establish test procedures for TV/VCR tuner performance.