Layer3 TV is a new US cable company with service available in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Longmont, CO with Los Angeles coming online soon. Shown here is an exclusive look at their new set-top box designed by BMW Group subsidiary Designworks. “We believe design should be at the center of everything we do and it starts with the box,” CEO Jeff Binder tells us about …
Lately, cable television stations have eased up on their restrictions of swearing, adopting the word “bitch” as common vocabulary and allowing the occasional S-bomb to slip—but it wasn’t always this way. According to Vulture’s latest “Secret History of Television” episode, it wasn’t until South Park’s well-received “It Hits the Fan” episode in 2001—where the word “shit” is proclaimed a record 200 times—that the Federal Communications …
In an expected 3-2 vote, the FCC has elected to reclassify the internet as a “telecommunications service,” effectively banning throttling, blocking and paid prioritization. The new rules level the playing field for all internet entities and prohibit cable providers like Time Warner Cable or Comcast from requiring websites to “pay to play” for faster online speeds. This open internet format will treat smaller sites the …
