Home » Archives by category » News & Analysis » Broadcast TV
Broadcast TV
Top Story
Videonet’s Pick of 2011
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....
Read article...
Nigel Walley at Decipher is fed up with technology companies with advertising solutions based on personalisation who do not appreciate the culture of shared viewing. He says TV is delivering everything the ad industry asks of it.…
Socmedia has boosted live viewing by making it impossible to record sports and avoid hearing the score. Even closer integration of ‘social’ and ‘TV’ could change how we discover content, as well.…
Broadcasters must be promiscuous to ensure they have a future in the digital age, making their content available everywhere, on any platform and in any country, and finding new partners, experimenting and accepting failures along the way. That…
Luke Johnson, Founder and Chairman, Risk Capital Partners, painted a gloomy picture of the future of traditional linear broadcasting today, declaring that ‘legacy’ free-to-air broadcasters in Western Europe are in the business of managing decline, even though they…
Broadcasters and content producers will take account of companion screens such as tablet devices in future programme making, with greatly increasing audience interaction, particularly in games shows and sporting events. Some broadcasters have been testing the waters for…
Having read 101 obituaries for broadcast TV over the last few years, broadcasters must be delighted that their gut instinct about the importance of linear programming is now being backed by evidence.…
39% of early adopters are watching live TV and OTT is definitely complementing rather than substituting linear viewing. Strategy Analytics has also been highlighting barriers to Connected TV adoption including the need for service/device integration.…
Analogue satellite is being switched off in Germany next April but cable operators are in no hurry to follow suit, although they do hope to pick up new digital TV subscribers.…
There is debate about the longevity of CI+ for Pay TV without STBs. The main concern is the user experience but at least one commentator thinks the next step is using MHEG for branded EPGs and VOD.…
Catch-up TV is helping to hold up linear viewing figures in the UK by allowing people to remain up to date with programmes, and social media is boosting ‘live’. Maybe the demise of linear was exaggerated.…
MPEG-4 and JPEG2000 are competing as the codecs of choice for next-generation contribution. Increasing volumes of HD prompted the Portuguese broadcaster to move from MPEG-2 and the 4:2:2 10 bit profile will boost colour quality.…
ZON “redefines TV for the Internet generation”; Thomson headend solutions behind Sweden's DVB-T2 Roll Out; Sky Deutschland launches CI+ modules based on NDS VideoGuard; Racing UK chooses PayWizard for mobile video services……
A recent study boosts the prospects of 3DTV. Partially sighted people reported a positive viewing experience and said they will not be disadvantaged if 3DTV was the only TV available. Sighted consumers preferred 3D to 2D.…
Service Compatible 3DTV means the 2D and 3D versions of a programme can be broadcast within the same video stream, avoiding simulcasting. However, it requires new STBs and there are doubts whether 2D and 3D production is compatible.…
SoC vendor Broadcom has introduced a technology that could consign slow channel change times, the curse of digital TV, to the history books. The company is claiming 100ms delays, partly through addressing GOP delays.…
Potentially, 3DTV could be the next big incremental improvement in television viewing but today there are almost as many questions as answers about the new format. In time for IBC, Harmonic Inc. has provided this FAQ.…
Unlike with HDTV, when markets and standards were already developing outside Europe, European broadcasters can help shape the future of 3DTV from the beginning. EBU is helping to determine their needs.…
The DTG believes Frame Compatible is good enough for the vast majority of 3DTV provider needs today. The separate 2D and 3D production chains mean a 2D/3D compatible solution is ruled out for now.…
MVC encoding is possible on existing encoders and set-top boxes that can decode this extension of MPEG-4 AVC are on their way. Envivio is convinced that MVC is the future of 3DTV content delivery.…
ESPN is currently contributing 3DTV sports to its own Bristol facility as discreet left/right HD feeds, then moving to Frame Compatible for distribution to partners. The broadcaster wants to move away from Frame Compatible altogether.…
ITV CEO Adam Crozier admits dependence on pure ad funding is not sustainable as UK’s leading free to air commercial broadcaster makes HD channels available on Sky pay TV platform, with availability on Virgin Media likely to follow…
Sony studies show that consumers are happy with the weight and design of 3DTV glasses. The early reliance on Blu-ray movies and games for 3D content will mean viewing times are relatively short anyway.…
Frame Compatible 3DTV provides the means to roll out services without new infrastructure investments. But what are the implications of ‘second generation’ 3DTV, like 2D + Delta and MVC, for set-top boxes?…
GlobeCast had a successful World Cup in South Africa, contributing 28 live 3DTV games worldwide. Signals were converted to Frame Compatible 3D in Africa, then compressed in MPEG-2 HD, with satellite and fibre links.…
The UK’s leading charity for people with sight loss is studying the effects of viewing 3D, including with people who have Glaucoma. It warns that the industry faces the risk of unhappy consumers without in-depth insights.…
Most 3DTV pioneers think shooting native 3D content is the best approach where possible, but TV Globo is interested in 2D to 3D conversion to create the volumes of content needed quickly to support a 3D channel.…
3DTV will never achieve mass-market take-up but will prosper as a niche product, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. The company is predicting that 22 million homes will be watching 3D content by 2015.…
Discovery Communications is committed to leading the development of 3DTV for non-fiction content and is encouraged by the market prospects for 3D display equipment. The company is targeting the same ‘male techies’ that welcomed HD first.…
Delegates at last week’s 3DTV World Forum will have come away confident that this time around, this format could finally become a mass-market TV reality. But significant parts of the population may never watch it.…
UK satellite operator BSkyB, which launches its residential 3DTV service this autumn, says the business model for 3DTV is easier than HDTV or digital TV before it. Sky believes the new format could radically alter television.…
Connect with Videonet
