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Fighting Piracy – Business As Usual Is Not Sustainable
Multiscreen distribution makes it harder for Pay TV operators to battle piracy but the ability to identify illegal activity, investigate and prioritise the threats and then enforce countermeasures, combined with providing attractive legal alternatives, means you can balance risk and investment....
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Platform operators now have to assess the quality of service received on an array of multiscreen end user devices. They then need new data visualization techniques to present 'big data' in meaningful ways that relate to the provider’s…
Unlike general networking devices, networked video devices come under the scrutiny of government regulators because of their power consumption. Dr. Anton Monk, the CTO at MoCA, outlines why this matters to service providers and what MoCA 2.0 does…
In its latest quarterly VOD audit for the UK, Decipher found that Blinkbox has the most movies, just ahead of Sky. Sky now has the most comprehensive catch-up service but this is least used when compared to…
Ben Schwarz continues his observations and analysis from the showfloor at TV Connect in London last month.…
Ben Schwarz provides his usual sharp-eyed observations and analysis after talking to a number of leading vendors and watching some breakfast presentations during TV Connect in London recently.…
In our previous post discussing advanced security technologies, Geir Bjorndal, vice president, international strategy, with the multi-network security specialist, Verimatrix, addressed the changes in piracy techniques. In the second part of the story, he outlines advanced security techniques…
Historically, pay-tv operators have relied upon legacy, smartcard-based conditional access (CA) security solutions to protect their content against piracy and to ensure only authenticated customers have access to valuable content. Over the past few years, however, the changing…
Kai Henniges, CEO at Viewster, discusses how content owners can protect their intellectual property and combat the threat of online piracy.…
Jon Dahl at Brightcove says only first rate online and mobile video is good enough now, and outlines five points that should be remembered if you want to deliver a quality experience.…
Nigel Walley, MD at Decipher, takes a hard look at CES and asks: Did anything on display have the potential to disrupt the TV distribution landscape, and will the initiatives on offer prompt more revenues or more costs?…
Peter Docherty, Founder & CTO at ThinkAnalytics, outlines the key trends we should expect in the field of content recommendation, including a much greater emphasis on personal recommendations for linear TV.…
Philip Hunter says social TV has helped restore linear and live TV at the centre of our entertainment lives and argues that the projected death of the STB is a myth.…
Broadpeak President Jacques Le Mancq champions the operator CDN and argues that operators can compete against the economies of scale offered by global CDN providers by using the broadband gateway or STB in their customer homes as nano…
With more than a million Android-based devices being activated every day, it is time to think seriously about how we protect content on them. There are various techniques that can make them behave more like STBs, as Verimatrix…
Yonatan Sela, VP Marketing at Tvinci explains what his company means by the term OTT 2.0, pointing to a second wave of OTT deployments where OTT is incorporated as part of the core TV offering and not as…
The first part of a series of blogs from Ben Schwarz reviewing what he saw on the showfloor at IBC 2012. In this post he considers KIT Digital's multiscreen demos, Zappware's user interface capabilities and never.no's social TV…
Second screen (companion) devices are targeted for a large number of applications that enhance the overall TV watching experience of the user. These applications are also a means for various stakeholders like broadcasters, pay-TV operators, CE vendors and…
With IBC 2012 starting tomorrow, this IBC special blog looks at one of this year’s key show themes – the issues surrounding content creation and innovation. As the marketplace swells with competition, and consumers become more fickle than…
A Pay TV provider offering a full range of multi-screen services in 2012 has seen its content delivery platform topologies explode 60-fold. They need to do this without unmanageable support costs and should take advantage of test automation.…
Social networks have greatly increased the ease of pirated content discovery and this blog outlines the problem and considers ways to counter it.…
You wait years for one, then three arrive at once…. So YouView has finally launched, and having waited for years for our first box, there are now three different ones to play with down at iBurbia Studios. We…
With IBC fast approaching once again, I have been contemplating that perennial question – what is the future of the set-top box? Let’s start with the basics – what does a consumer want from a set-top box? I…
Recommendation engines for static content are now commonplace but the challenge now is supporting real-time suggestions for 500+ linear channels.
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A debate is brewing between the implementation of ‘Relative’ and ‘Absolute’ motion control for next generation Smart TV user interfaces…
The Olympics is the pinnacle of live sports broadcasting, especially when every event is being shown live across 24 channels in the UK. These games illustrate the maturity of HD and multi-screen but there is no ‘big new…
After the triple- and quad-play, the fifth play is the Smart Home. This market is ready to kick-off and if service providers do not get involved, others will. …
Philip Hunter argues that DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) Premium Video deserves more attention than it is getting, because it will open the whole home to premium content.…
Jean-Pierre Fumagalli, CEO and founder of smartclip, examines the influence of new technologies in the video industry and argues that now is the time for advertisers to experiment with mobile video and interactive Connected TV. …
The past 60 years have seen what may be the most transformative period in modern history, with broadcasting being one of the areas experiencing some of the most incredible developments. …
Olivier Wolf, Partner at international media and telecoms consultancy Greenwich Consulting discusses the much-anticipated YouView…
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