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The need for transcoding within the STB SoC has resurfaced to support portable consumption at home, while the increasing similarities between smartphone and STB SoC functionality raises the question of whether convergence is possible.…
Having grown used to laptop viewing and £20k in debt when they leave college, students can combine OTT with Lovefilm. Pay TV operators are probably feeling uneasy about continued growth prospects.…
Ben Schwarz takes a close look at OpenTV’s roadmap vision for the user interface, covering discovery, 3D and convergence, and concludes that the challenge is to deliver revolutionary features in an evolutionary UI…
Google and Sony are partnering to bring connected televisions to market that will deliver the best of Web entertainment to the big screen. Google is promising consumers that they can find anything they want.…
Ved Sen analyses the various views from the Connected TV Summit of what consumers want from a Connected TV experience and what they will be willing to pay for.…
With the proliferation of Internet-enabled services and devices, consumers can access different and compelling programming from many sources. How can content providers find space in this market and who will ultimately win in the battle for subscribers?…
A well executed App Store would make it easy for content providers to publish and monetise applications on TV. Today’s TV App Stores are not well executed, but in time may become so. The impact on pay TV…
Ben Schwarz looks at the role of standards like SVG in the creation of user interfaces, and how there is a focus on operators being able to make simple changes to their own EPG.…
OTT to the television – or Connected TV - is the start of a revolution, according to Michael Lantz at Accedo Broadband. Everything available on closed TV networks today will become available on connected OTT devices…
Part 1: Hospitality has plenty to teach the rest of us. Ben Schwarz finds out how hotels are using programme guide customisation and how reliable simplicity is the key to monetization.…
Ben Schwarz talks to Awox about how DLNA enables OTT to transform STB business models for operators from cash drains to cash cows…
The proliferation of free content online, including premium content, prompted doubts about the continuing relevance of Pay TV subscriptions but this year major content owners have been queuing to back the paid model.…
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