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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 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…
Delivering video services OTT will not kill IPTV. On the contrary, it will complement and even help it by extending IPTV's reach. OTT is an ideal technology for IPTV operators to deliver multiscreen or TV-anywhere experiences.…
OTT service providers have made it acceptable to put a price tag next to video. The OTT/multi-screen market opportunity and consumer expectations have never been greater, but neither have the technical hurdles and the breathtaking level of fragmentation.…
The video advertising inventory that comes from non-PC devices is expanding quickly, providing a mouth-watering opportunity to reach viewers across a range of different platforms and at almost any time.…
CAT-iq can be regarded as the next generation of DECT, a low bandwidth standard for voice, data and home automation. It brings convergence with the Internet and we will be hearing a lot more about it. …
HTTP Adaptive Streaming algorithm can sometimes reward some clients for “bad” behavior and punish others for “good” behavior when they share a link in the network that becomes congested. The industry needs a way to share the link…
Verimatrix anticipates that adaptive streaming advances, particularly around HLS and Smooth Streaming, are likely to alter the current framework of managed network vs. Internet delivery.…
Eva Dudek, Global Marketing Project Manager at Polaroid Eyewear, says 3DTV adoption rates are growing, as is the availability of content. She believes London 2012 is the perfect opportunity to drive 3DTV.…
There’s no denying that multi-network video services are garnering a lot of hype and buzz. This continues to be the overriding theme of the IP&TV World Forum, fueled by competitive video service operators who are eager to enhance…
There were significant announcements at the AT&T 2012 Developer Summit. Developers can now use the AT&T U-verse Enabled SDK to create mobile second-screen apps that associate devices and apps with individual U-verse receivers and issue commands.…
New QoS and interference avoidance algorithms, and mesh networking technology, are among the innovations that are making wireless video streaming affordable and easy to use, as well as convenient.…
Wholesale CDN solutions empower operators and content providers with greater control of video delivery. Benefits include accurately monitoring the amount of bandwidth being used, helping to eliminate network congestion.…
In the second part of two, Ben Schwarz, CEO, CTOi Consulting, and Nicolas Bry, Senior VP, Orange Vallee, continue their detailed analysis of how to harness content discovery and social TV, and introduce the concept of Blended TV.…
In part one of two, Ben Schwarz, CEO, CTOi Consulting, and Nicolas Bry, Senior VP, Orange Vallee, take a detailed look at how to harness content discovery and social TV, starting with some of the challenges and solutions.…
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