Comcast struggles to quantify TV Everywhere iPad viewership [Roundup]

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- TV Everywhere’s Counting Problem [All Things Digital] — “Witness Comcast’s announcement yesterday, made at the cable industry’s annual convention in Boston, that it has been working with Nielsen on a plan to count viewers when they watched video on an iPad*, using Comcast’s Xfinity app. For various technical reasons, this is much harder than you’d think, and the two companies have already been beavering away at this for 18 months.”
- Extra lane: how Comcast assures that Xfinity TV on Xbox 360 works well [Ars Technica]
- New Comcast services threaten wireless text and data revenue [Cnet]
- Comcast CEO Roberts not attending The Cable Show [FierceCable]


