the president that is not our business. we are not in the business of writing advisory opinions. it is interesting that he goes as far back as that. he's very concerned on very restrictive rules with respect to what matters belong in courts. once you acknowledge that it belongs there, you can decide it. this is going to keep coming back. whose numbers are being collected at nsa. that case will come back again. we will see some more standing

discussion. it will be interesting. it is about the rule of law and the role of courts. >> it you watch oprah winfrey, they are suggesting you go home and find a good book to read. ours is somewhat different. i hope we whetted your appetite to go home and read some cases. lawyers and judges do that all the time. we try to sit up there a lot of cases we could have suggested you write and pick out a few that must be reading when the time comes. thank you for having us here. thank you to the panelists for engaging in the conversation of the court. [applause] >> william gray died yesterday,

the first african-american house where. the president said he was a trailblazer, crowd the representing congress over decades of the first african- american to chair the budget committee and serve as majority whip. he talked about his time in congress. 1979, you got in to know your fellow democrats, you learn to work with each other, but the same thing was true with regard to the other side of the aisle. the best friends i ever had in congress were republicans. especially ranking members of the budget committee. have meals out and together to talk informally about the budget policy.

of thatan illustration that the chairman of the budget committee had not presented to me anything. remindi would like to the gentleman that i did, we were at his house. about,ked and thought but that stuff doesn't go on. that kind of relationship. ranking member for a while, i have a regular routine of once a week. out with a gentleman judge from chicago that she married. i don't know what i said in those meetings, but we had a

great time. became the ranking member and we used to go out and talk about football. disagreegh we significantly almost everything, we learned to like each other and we were not evil. people think the guy on the other side is pure evil. and my job is to blow them up. the senator was talking about, you go to a hearing, and your out. -- you're out. the national cable and tele-

communications association representing cable operators and cable channels. the panel discussed broadband technology and how it will affect the cable industry and content providers. sec,cting chairman of the .iacom, and liberty global this is 1 hour and 15 minutes. [applause] inspired not only by that performance, but by so many things i am seeing at the show this year. show has its first, but there is one in which i am very proud of this year. it got under way just a little while ago, downstairs in the convention center. we are hosting the first ever had job fair for u.s. veterans,

reservists, and spouses to be held in conjunction with a major trade show. unbelievable. [alause] it is an opportunity for our industry to reach out to america of's finest. as a proud daughter of a veteran, i believe that we of these man-to-man to sacrifice for our freedom the utmost respect and gratitude. they can tell you what a positive impact we have had on performance on the leadership process that drives all of our company. we are thrilled to have several hundred veterans exploring for themselves the potential careers in cable.

our industry's own human resources as well as the many companies that are participating today and the jobs fair. leadershipte your making this happen. will would be remiss if we did not recognize the veterans and reservists already working in our industry. ask the veterans and reservists to stand up and be recognized? [applause] you deserve it. thank you for your service. toave the exciting daughter

introduce to you our next speaker. it has taken nearly 80 years, but today, we can say that there is a woman running the federal communications commission. go, women. yes. role,she is new in that she is not new to many of us. she worked to understand the issues that we face, to build and how the businesses operate in the grass and the impact on our industry and how that affects american citizens. she joined in 2009 and is serving the second term as a member of the commission. commission -- could remains pending in congress. please join me in welcoming the

acting chairwoman of the federal communications commission. have to chat with her this morning, the president and ceo, michael powell. thank you. ♪ >> this will be a lot easier than yester day. , am so excited to sit here ,aving once sat in your seat seeing you achieve all that you have achieved. this is not the first time she has been a chairwoman, we were

good friends back then. >> what a phenomenal conference, all because of view. you upstaged m. c. hammer yesterday, i heard. >> we will get started. much gets made growing up at a family. because of your achievements, we know what it means breaking the

barrier that has long existed. what does it mean to you, personally? not just society or other women, but to you. >> she always encouraged her children and grandchildren to do the best that you can. she embraced me, and she knew that when she could not help me with my homework, she literally helped me with every other facet of life. i think about 57% of the lemon

-- women make of the college roles. and i am happyre about that. >> i have had several years of experience, and it gives you a very strong foundation as you take the helm. you know much of the direction it has headed the. you think it will have an opportunity -- >> i think i will get a to were a little later. it is about the auction. no matter where you are, you have the opportunity to engage.

it is phenomenal to me. on the devices, the tablets. providers migrating to these platforms is wonderful. there is an opportunity for you to engage in this space and it is the biggest win for you and consumers. >> you should know me and the chairwoman have this debate because there is no such thing as an acting chair person of the fcc. if the president designates you, your id as long as you pleased to serve. -- you're it as long as you

please to serve. how do you think about setting an agenda? >> regardless of how much time we have in terms of leading this remain to focus. from your perspective, we are -- last week, before the end of the year, we will again be competition in the video market. we have the little thing you might have heard about.

it has taken up a lot of the oxygen right now. we will talk about a status update on that. the major deadline in terms of implementation of that, what does that mean? each and every day, there is a better opportunity to engage in this space not just through television the engagement, but all the vices and platforms. that is something that we should be proud of. we're working very hard to continue to close those gaps,

the technology gaps. i am proud to be in a position to have a hand in that. >> i want to take a second to commend you. ,art of the chairman's job chairwoman's job -- you're the ceo. you called me recently, we were talking, and you never told me about this part. running an agency of 1800 wonderful iswas you were dedicated and committed to make sure the men and women were focused on the resources necessary to do their job. >> i am really not just saying this arbitrarily, i love this agency.

i love thepeople, constituents we serve. this is an incredible time to be in this space. are so excited and to really be the drivers as it relates to innovation. arerotect consumers, and we drivers of innovation and investment. is amazing to me i have a hand in it. we first met when on the carolina commission, the communication world was a radically different place. was a understood, there set number of players heavily focused on telephone regulation.

broadband and the internet, it radically transformed what we are focused on in the country and i wanted to get your perspective on the evolution of a broad band. think about how the regulators role in that? been a breathtaking exponential increase. how do you keep pace with that? >> from your perspective, you have done an incredible job of connecting this nation. most of america has access to broadband.

we know the 100 million americans do not have broadband at home. and we know that cost is still a factor in some areas. a whole host of people do not see what is in it for them. we know that this technology, broadband is a great equalizer for a host of people. carolina and is relatively rules-based. i see glaring disparities. opportunities, i know that it has the potential to be a great equalizer.

the country where the language forpoken, the opportunities those students. literally, you synod -- sign on and have those at your disposal. those transitioning between connect with individuals all over the world and increase your opportunity of financial gain. this is a phenomenal time, a phenomenal technology.

we would need a public-private partnerships in order to ensure that we received the full benefit of this incredible platform. >> we have been working really well with you. way rarely geta america online and enjoy the full blessings of that. the last week, we saw president of the united states was speaking at an elementary , and talking about the importance of the initiative to expand broadband. the cablethat .ndustry has been doing what do you think about the possibilities of this new effort?

>> i am excited that the president has tcalled upon all of us to take that all of the above approach on this. to focus on the opportunity to oure our children and teachers to the best of our abilities. if you look at where we anrted, it has made incredible difference. if you look at 1996, many were connected in terms of broadband back then. schools were connected, and it was because -- administrators say t have the e

capacity that what we define as broadband will not be delivered to the students. to enhance thee educational experience through a robust video platform does not exist for the nation's children. why this is so important. and the fcc will be front and center delivering to teachers. that we knowm is technology is going to change. if we had the program to do all over again, we would have modularity. 150,000 hot spots around the country, is there a place for

wifi? alaska,ve both been to some of the more rural areas of the country. we have to look at this thing from a business standpoint. it is becoming efficient to literally hard wired this entire country. best in some of those communities where is more expensive. and all of the above approach. what is the efficient way to connect communities, and the approach that you mentioned, the collaboration of those partners?

connecting the most efficient with licensed platforms, it has the capacity to save money, so we can free up and encourage more speed. we have got to talk about the license as part of the mix. there is no other way we can do it efficiently. have you here. we have to wrap up. it has been found to have you. -- fun to have you. [applause]

♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, for our next one-on-one conversation, please welcome the co-anchor of kbox and bryaian roberts. >> thank you for being here with

us. we have been trying to figure out the big themes, and it seemed to me one of the things had to be the relationship cable companies and there is no better person to ask. how are you getting along with yourself these days? >> depending on the moment of tension, nervousness, it is like a family. sometimes it is messy. i believe our future looks really bright. legitimatere are questions and conversations. view is the role of government trying to negotiate private relationships. i don't think the government is here to fix our business.

booth, youund the see energy, excitement, lots of new channels. it is a great time. you can be in some many different businesses right now. >> there is the push back hand,n who has the upper the channels or the content providers. who has the upper hand right now? >> there are more distributors than ever before, so that changes some of the dynamic. the technological change is very troubling. you can skip commercials, you can have no commercials altogether. content?t your

we can work together and have both sides come out great. i don't see winners verses losers. if that happens, you have problems. hugethough you bring up a point of what is happening with a video on demand. younger people finding ways to watch things online and changing the entire structure. how did you break all of these changes without completely --nibalizing >> it depends on the company u r looking at. if you don't have your products in every platform, you are missing a whole generation. i think that is a mistake. channel these multi-

video the scribers -- subscribers. we are starting to see we're making a services more so for people on all of these life forms. it is all about getting on a tablet, your smart phone. when you can get it on a new high death tv, that is where you want to have it most. we are seeing all in all the .ear ship and engagement higher some of that is pirated. summing -- some of the is legal. is ais that -- some of the different model. >> i will admit to being a bit when it comes to the technology stuff. i do not know if i'm slow.

a lot of consumers have issues with it. , guilty asthat charged, we have not made it as easy as we need to. there is a lot of effort around doing that. application, what we do this with the olympics. we did this with other events. the use is much higher. we're told that this is a facebook credentials when you sign up that will be good enough to be your tv everywhere credentials. we are looking at these problems that are solvable. i believe that this is important. , weerent programming rights are heading in a good direction. we have more tv everywhere usage than we have ever had. i think we will have way more than we have today. >> what is the future of television?

years're talking 5-10 down the road? >> or interactive and personalized. working on every device. the infinity, anything you want any time you want it on any device. it is up to the rights holder to figure out whether that is free, advertising supported. content that it wants to find for its business model. i have learned that the difference between a show with syndication value, to show that has overseas partners, it is complicated. in the end, as an engineering matter, this industry is better positioned with our platforms to give you that if an experienced breed of think you will see some of that. >> can you give us an example?

it seemed like you are testing things. what is one show or property that -- >> the olympics. go back 20 years. there are only a few hours of of television live coverage. will happen this winter will be literally 10 times what was done just a few olympics ago. we will have multiple networks. you can watch live or in prime time. we will have social media heavily engaged. we had 15 on-demand streams of olympic contact -- content from london. we had higher television ratings, even with these choices, then we did four years before in beijing. we have high expectations that when you have big events, or big launchor you see the new of a series occurs, television becomes more personalized to you

. each of us, the answer is not the same. we as distributors and creators have to embrace that time of change. i think it is exciting. , as leaders, in an opportune position. limits are a unique example. the olympics are a unique example. dead.ht up on my walking how does everyone make up -- make money off of that? >> we had something, the highest seriesnd, 100 television , several episodes, the biggest week of on-demand viewing we have ever had. we said let's focus on giving people more choices to catch up,

and to follow along with series. that has been great for their series for next year. -- we are nowvel able to have targeted ads. it brings forward a relative had. ad. we are going to that every 90 days. >> the advertisers get it? >> i think so. >> the consumers obviously wanted. >> maybe it is not the traditional way people view, but they want that content. when you give it to them in an easy way to get it, more viewing than ever before. >> it is only the cable and the delivery of television. it is how you reach out to people in terms of the internet. i know that comcast has increased his internet service provider speed every year for 11

years. there have been offerings out there, like google fiber. canle look at that and say they keep up with this? i think there was response recently where some people thought maybe they think there was a demand for that. is there? >> i hope there is a demand for that. i think that is maybe not right from my view. the more customers rave -- crave speed, the more the kids in the garage and the geniuses around the world and the applications that require speed. it is the best thing that can happen to our industry. is --an, whether it competition, we have to embrace that. that is why your sing innovation. we are the innovator. speed dial-ry slow up phone business, and we have

increased our speed 11 times. we -- i got an e-mail recently of a large file. it is from paul allen, a big proponent of speed. fireable 4.2 gigabyte -- file. it at the comcast booth. four times high death. this is not a four k screen. you'll get a sense that this is some of his video. it is going to be a lot cheaper ,han tv devices and the cameras than high death was when it came out. unbelievable quality. let's take a look and see what the speed was created this is running -- what the speed was.

this is the first time we have had the slide. gigabytes a second. that happened over our distant cable system. our network, this is 300 times faster than the first demo i did at a cable show. it is the same cable network. all the innovation that is happening place to our strengths. if consumers want to need that speed, our industry is going to deliver it. cable has worked on faster speeds than this. they're going to show that later today. i think we are in a wonderful position to have an exceed demand. we applications that want to. they'll be great for us pre->> how long will it take? >> we have doubled our speeds 11 times. we are ready to go. it could be a few years previous going to have a few innovations

we are working on. we are going to try even faster speeds. it is what is happening with your wi-fi, and the rest of the connectivity. i'mwell it's integrated? going to show a little bit more of what we are working on now. i think that it is coming. it is, we are 300 megabits now. we were even half of that. atwhat is a me to somebody homewood is understand? >> there was an example of a file that was four gigabytes. them i have taken 10 minutes to download a few years ago. it happened in a few seconds. if we could think of it, we would all go and invent them. it goes back here central question. andhis industry flexible,

able to take advantage of the consumers? yes. youn that, i want to thank for your time today. i know you have another demonstration. [applause] >> as i said, i believe that this may be one of the more exciting times to be in our industry. about one year ago, we said we think television is going to change more the next five years than it has in the last 50. got to think it is really happening, and it is what energizes us at comcast. it is the cloud. the cloud is a game changer. for us, we had an off -- ah-hah moment.

we could move into the cloud. it would allow us to have a whole new platform to innovate off of. x1call that the x one -- platform. we will have rolled out the platform nationally. what is interesting is how fast we can innovate and change that platform. updates in the0 last 12 months. some are little, some in small. that is how you build a software company. i think we would describe ourselves more as a technology innovation company. we have a whole new team in energy doing this for the company. they are young and diverse. they are energetic. there is a vital comcast like i have never seen in many years.

i asked this team to refocus the x1 platform. make it faster for consumers to get at the content they want. they do notter so have to do it over and over again. it learns your preferences pre- make it easy. criticism is it is to hard to get around. make a personalized. as with across the cloud, web ecosystem, the winners are companies who can integrate across all devices, across all platforms, with a common interface, and a naked easy and fun to use. and they make it easy and fun to use. it allows you to rethink the cable box itself. we are showing today a box we call xi3.

i have one over here. let me go and get it. times faster,ur and three times smaller. it is half the power consumption than the traditional cable box. you can reimagine the cable box, you can reimagine the remote control. this is a brand-new remote that is coming out. it has cool features. less buttons. we're going to show some of the capabilities of this. -- theink to the feature future, you can have a personalized remote. a family of remotes. we're pretty excited to open this up and get innovation around the remote. all of these steps with this focus, we are put together a new

entertainment operating system. we call it x2. it is the next generation. it will be out this year, late in the fall. the boothu'll come to after the demo demo and play with it. it is up and running. we are proud of what you are about to see. let's begin. you come home from work, and you turn your tv. the first thing you will see is welcome back. the guy has been working for you , even though you have been away. it will show you what you have recorded. it can show you what is on now. it allows to incorporate a bunch of other comcast relationships. your energy management, how much are smart thermostat has saved.

in this case, it shows you how much power it can serve for you. -- conserved for you. screen, i hope the first thing you'll notice is that this is simple, beautiful, elegant. i am really proud of the work the design team -- we work with graphic designers, as well as all over the world, and have had a whole newwho had look. you can get to anything that matters to you. -- let'srt world must start where most wistar. that guide is now six guides. a ghost and tv listings, to just sports,, to movies, to

and then personalized recommendations. one of the things, as we think beyond this, there could be your guide that you have created. it is the beginning of being in the cloud allowing you that kind of interactivity that we would never see before. here is the guide of what is upcoming that we know you are interested in. let's go to tv listings. again, beautiful work here by the team. a lot of information, but it is not still clutter. take a look at the bottom right. rotten tomatoes. you'll be integrated with the partnership with our open architecture to be able to take their ratings for every movie,

click inning it more information. you can see whether this is a movie you are interested in watching. down to doug dynasty, you can see at the bottom a twitter score. this our partnership, this is real-time. it changes as you choose different shows based on the buzz and tweets per hour, which is what it does for you. you can see how hot or not the show is at that moment. you can go and say i was taken action. i can watch and record. we have added bookmarks. let me bookmark it and said that. this is all doable because of our integrated database. go to the next guide, which is kids. kids, we have always wanted a safe place for parents to be able to know this is age appropriate for my child.

here is 42-4-year-old reese coolers -- -year-olds. 2-4 year here are recommendations from common sense media, one of our partners in giving parents more information. now it is completely integrated right there. if you come over a couple of clicks, you will see the common sense difference between a seven-year-old an eight-year- old. you can lock it onto this guide view him and your kids only have these choices. they'll probably figure out how to get around that before they will know how to set the password. ,ut it is fabulous integration and the simplicity we have been

wanting for years. let's move on. everything you are interested in , you have saved. what happensbout when you record a show, our statistics show that about 80% of all your dvr viewing occurs within 18 hours of setting the recording. why not have the first thing to pop up your recently recorded content. that is what we have done here. it is easy to get right at what you have recorded. or you can continue watching something you stopped. go to your bookmarks, and then there is doug dynasty. uck dynasty. ondemand has been a priority. this is our 10th anniversary of comcast ondemand. in those 10 years, we have had

30 billion downloads and orders. we are now up to over 400 million ondemand sessions a month. he ever session last for over 30 minutes. to 40,000 movies and television shows. how do you get to the content ,ou really want easily, and fun with less clicks? the first thing you'll notice is for you to read this can be by household, or by user. movies, tv shows, networks, kids. we say here are movies commended for you. that is based on the movies you have watch. here is a specific movie, which we will randomly pick and change. here are recommendations if you

like that movie. here is tv dramas that we know are for you. when he first time, we easily incorporated web videos. surprise, a nose our golf channel. -- surprise it knows our golf channel. if you move over, you can just pick all movies to search through. beautiful, here are tv shows. now works, one of the things we've noticed with networks is there are so many networks. i have to go through a hierarchy. why not take the most recent networks and make them pop up first? or just by premium, or by broadcast, or by alphabetical. easy to navigate. have -- while we have been

working to make it better, we want to make the remote control experience better. the buttons on their military at last year when we launch, we said let's start with the last button, rather than a last nine. this has been hugely popular. people use this more than 10 times a day. makeve looked at how to other buttons valuable. let's go into game of thrones. if i pull the info button, it allows me to take actions. team hashe graphics done a fabulous job giving you information without interrupting your video experience. bingee also observed viewing habits that we all have as consumers that did not exist if you -- a few years ago.

my wife and i, we get lost of where are we. .ere is episode six it lets you know you have seen the episode. you may have noticed that in a couple of other menu screens. it is letting you know real- time. another area that we have been excited to work on that we have not worked on before was disability. , we arehired a new team proud of the work they have done. 20% of the household in america live with a disability. we have really wanted to focus on how to make these products more accessible. we have taken the key a mirror mode, -- the key on the remote, and made it accessible.

you audiow give feedback. let's go -- >> main menu ondemand. info.i want to go to >> 55 minutes. hbo on demand. it voice navigation disabled. >> it turns back off. very cool, great work. we are excited about accessibility. we have been a lot of times on search. x1, we launched search. if i want to watch amc, i go to the keyboards on my remote.

there would be channeled to 62. there we are. very easy to navigate around. about 10 years ago, we started talking about voice with search. we have shown with smartphones that you can do it with your wireless phones. we wanted to put it into remote for a long time. mr. mo finally will have all the remotes -- all remotes will have a voice command. watch "burn notice." then it will go and switch. we are testing that a more complicated the surge, the more you want to go to voice. find movies about basketball.

amazingly, it finds just movies. everything all at once. you can do it by sports teams. you can go by an actor. find don cheadle. showsike this, there is that he is in now, you can look at his credits and the programs. excitingly, here is web video that we will also pull part of this experience. , and about personalization about getting you there faster. we are excited about openness and apps, and customization. we come over to the app section.

we have improved this quite a bit. easily changed inside and personalized by you. here is whether -- weather. will get our facebook feeds. this is needs. managementd energy can be right there. he here is pandora --here is pandora. popular.eally very it is nice to add a tile, and make it easy. this will continue to evolve and improve. this is what is important to your life. let's say i want to go in and band. up

see iike that, you can didn't work out this morning. busy getting ready. .hat is a sneak peak it is available later this fall. we hope you will come by the comcast booth. i do not have enough time to go through a lot more about the clouds. we are pleased with how it all integrates as part of your future that i think is going to be better than we ever done before. it is a seamless experience. what is critical is that we make it work on all devices. back to the original vision. here is on a tv. a smartphone tablet, any ip connected device. the whole look and feel is to be fast,personable, smart,

fun. we are just scratching the surface. thank you all, very much. [applause] ♪ ♪

>> ladies and gentlemen, please quick. back becky please welcome a dell -- adele. next, the president of liberty global greed the president ceo of discovery communications, davids zaslav. >> that