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M-GO media discovery suitable for Pay TV, too
Technicolor’s M-GO media discovery app will appear on connected TVs and Ultrabooks this year but the company is also talking to Pay TV operators about how it can help them make curation more personal....
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Irish IPTV provider Magnet Networks has found that its AerTV OTT offer enables family members to watch different programmes at the same time. Unusually, the service is being marketed as a linear appointment-to-view experience.…
The glitter and hype of a trade show like CES can mask an industry’s underlying weaknesses. Amidst a wave of smarter and enhanced products, the TV business faces flattening demand and margins that may be upside down.…
Sky in the UK is introducing a standalone Internet TV service so traditionally non-Sky homes can start watching some Pay TV with less commitment and more flexible pricing and bundling. Connected TVs will become more important.
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Social TV is a trend with legs. The number of commenters on some shows is up 600 percent (plus) since last year, more and more devices now host the relevant apps and service providers are jumping aboard.…
Haier arrives in the UK this April, Coby has a range of models, and RCA has a sub-$60 streamer that is being built into a home theater. Hisense is transferring content between the TV and tablet.…
The major CE manufacturers are focused on companion screen experiences and multimedia content sharing, both within the home and beyond. Despite dropping ‘connected’ from their marketing, connectivity is still key for the new breed of Smart TV.…
IPTV set-top provider Amino is using devices powered by enhanced Wi-Fi chips to retrofit deployed boxes with enhanced wireless video networking, including whole-home PVR and OTT content sharing.…
Online media aggregators are venturing into original content. Two recent additions to YouTube’s planned lineup of 96 channels suggest that this quiet shift to a “new Hollywood” both subverts and draws upon the old regime. …
Legacy audience measurement techniques by themselves are unlikely to suffice in the unfolding multi-screen era. A new U.S. set-top patent awarded to DirecTV and rapprochement between Nielsen and comScore illustrate ongoing changes.…
The winner of Samsung’s “Free the TV” competition, announced at CES 2012, was an application that enables consumers to push photos taken at parties and events with mobile devices instantly onto a Samsung Smart TV.…
With Samsung supporting gesture and voice control on its Smart TVs, apps developers will be looking to harness the technology in their apps this year. Leading apps developer Accedo is also focused on social TV and second screen.…
The social network is branching out into television entertainment, with plans to integrate social and interactive TV experiences into a wide range of content via the Myspace TV app on Panasonic TVs, then tablets.…
Finding consumer acceptance, multi-screen video is on a growth spurt. Some operators are now launching services outside their footprint, many are increasing their network capacity, and the industry at large is bracing for the possibility of accelerating change.…
From Microsoft to YouTube to Sony, content was a dominant theme among participants at CES 2012. Two related challenges for service providers are simplifying consumer navigation of content and obtaining rights to distribute it to multiple screens.…
The company is drawing on its broadcast EPG heritage, with low processing and memory footprints, to deliver a connected TV software platform at no extra cost to CE vendors. The market includes own-brand TVs destined for bedrooms.…
In the latest Rovi Smart TV field trial, major brands are making use of interactive advertising capabilities. While Samsung has led the way with advertising studies, Rovi will help build cross-platform campaigns to kick-start the market.…
Sony subsidiary Gracenote is leveraging audio fingerprinting for use on multiple TV viewing screens. Interest is rising in this and other automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies, but one question is whether, or when, ACR will scale. …
Cisco debuted elements of its evolving Videoscape platform at CES, including software licensed from ActiveVideo Networks that enables Cloud TV applications. The deal, along with recent legal wins, boosts ActiveVideo’s standing and opportunities for deployment.…
The CE vendor is releasing a remote control app and a media guide app this year so consumers can control its Smart TVs using tablets. There is also DLNA enabled media sharing with laptops and phones.…
An improved user interface is accompanied by remote control apps and the ability to stream content from tablets and smartphones to the TV, reflecting a major theme at CES 2012.…
The CE giants have both been demonstrating their Google TV solutions at CES, with an emphasis on comprehensive video search, which looks far less removed from a ‘mainstream’ TV experience then you might think.…
Samsung has promised that its 2012 connected TVs will be fully upgradeable so new features can be added, removing the need to buy again. More processing power enables apps multi-tasking, and there is voice and gesture control.…
LG will offer a range of Google TV televisions in the U.S. this year. At CES the company outlined how it will differentiate in Connected TV and how its devices will combine to create the smart home.…
The U.S. satellite operator is taking on cable and OTT with a powerful whole-home HD DVR, the ability to record all four major broadcast networks for instant catch-up viewing, plus an expansion of on-demand content.
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We know tablets will be important for consuming broadband video and providing companion experiences like remote control but there is growing interest in their role as devices that can receive and deliver content from the in-home network.…
Facebook is one of the most popular apps on Samsung connected TVs and non-video apps are well used, but video dominates and all broadcasters will finally embrace the platform for catch-up in 2012, Futuresource predicts.…
The value of interactive advertising on the TV screen has been challenged by one senior media buyer who thinks second screens make it unnecessary, while the EPG is somewhere to navigate away from as quickly as possible.…
There is debate about what Connected TV offers, beyond interactivity, that classic TV cannot, but despite this there is general optimism for the new platform and potential for CE and broadcast industry partnership.…
Here is our pick from the best stories of 2011, providing a balanced view of what is driving the television industry forwards today, from multi-screen TV and Connected TV to OTT and Second Screen.…
At the Future TV Advertising Forum in December, some of the world’s biggest names in television audience measurement outlined what is needed now to ensure TV provides the accountability advertisers want across all platforms.…
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