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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.…
Sky Deutschland has turned to Pace to provide its HD PVR as the company focuses on subscriber growth through high-definition and time-shifting. The dual-tuner receiver is future-proofed for 3D and broadband VOD.…
Despite wide deployment of HD television sets in Germany and Austria, HDTV is not yet a major factor in the success of Pay TV. Brian Sullivan, CEO at Sky Deutschland, believes that is going to change.…
SkyLife is pursuing its ambition for SD to HD migration with the help of Nagravision CA. The two companies are also cooperating on 3DTV and hybrid satellite-IPTV solutions.…
Pay TV operators need to determine if consumers notice the difference between ‘side-by-side’ 3D and full HD 3DTV. Gary Gutknecht at Technicolor expects full HD 3D services from 2013-15 if consumers will pay extra.…
Viewers can expect longer to absorb sports scenes and less switching between shots when content is recorded in 3D. That is the lesson from the world’s first live 3D sports broadcast.…
Pubs and bars will be early beneficiaries of 3DTV, offering a viewing experience that is totally different from home. BSkyB is also using them as a shop window for the world’s first live sports 3DTV.…
Billed as the champion of 3D technology, Avatar could be set for Oscar glory, but the biggest surprise from this movie was how the producers spurned the chance to take us on a fairground ride.…
The name change for television solutions coincides with a promise to extend the value of an end-to-end customer partnership. Ericsson says its TV vision is for more on-demand, HD, multi-platform and convergence.…
The first ‘3D-ready’ set-top boxes are expected to hit the market in 2011, enabling full HD to both eyes. Assuming they can manage transmission bandwidth, broadcasters can differentiate services from the Internet.…
Box office revenues for Avatar 3D are seven times the 2D equivalent in the UK, and 3D gave European theatres a “historic” 2009. HD TV owners are saying they will pay more for a 3D movie channel.…
The world’s first commercially available Android-based set-top box was unveiled at CES and has a customer waiting. Service providers could benefit from a seamless three-screen applications environment and apps-based revenues.…
Demand for 3DTV in the home will be boosted by Blu-ray players, games consoles and 3D camcorders but an In-Stat survey suggests US consumers will only pay a few hundred dollars extra for 3D television sets.…
Satellite operators offering 3DTV can expect to dedicate around 10 Mb/s of bandwidth to each channel by 2020, assuming the most likely of several technology scenarios outlined by consultancy firm ZetaCast for Ofcom.…
Pay TV survives credit crunch but content budgets hit…
The TV industry has come to the point it must break from its past by introducing more powerful Internet style search and recommendation, but without alienating its customers by requiring them to learn too many new tricks too…
Despite a troubled economy and diminished consumer confidence, Sky has kept growing its subscriber base over the past year…
A review of Ericsson’s White Paper on what consumer want from television service providers…
More analysis from Day 2 of the Future of Broadcasting conference…
Sky attack Ofcom's proposal again, suggesting that future investment in content and innovation could be harmed.…
Account of a feisty first day at the Future of Broadcasting conference in London. A lot of attention on the Ofcom v Sky debate…
Sky and Ofcom at loggerheads over new measures to improve competition in Pay-TV. Premiere League storm into debate.…
Strategy Analytics user survey reveals consumers are looking to drop mobile data services ahead of Pay-TV and broadband. Broadband remains the favourite amongst all services to keep.…
The end of analogue television in America marks the beginning of a new era in broadcasting and frees up frequencies for new advanced wireless services…
Farncombe: Pay-TV shift to two-way networks will mean move away from smartcard-based conditional access systems…
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