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Motorola uses cloud UI concept to make entry-level STBs shine
ActiveVideo Networks pioneered the concept of rendering a User Interface in the network. The idea now has the backing of Motorola, whose customers do not want legacy STBs to be completely upstaged by next-generation receivers. ...
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It became clear during a CTO panel discussion this week that search and recommendation is central to the future of cable TV, but consumers may not make it easy by logging into personal profiles.…
Whether it takes another five to ten years for HTML5 to become a suitable foundation for productive business (as Gartner predicts) Pay TV operators such as Time Warner Cable are looking at how to leverage it now and,…
Social TV apps are proving a big hit, as some recent figures from analytics firm BlueFin Labs reveal. Increasingly, social will be integrated into EPG apps made available for or by platform operators.…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision that put a high value on navigation-related patents owned by ActiveVideo, which Verizon was found to be infringing upon in its deployment of…
Think Analytics has pushed beyond basic collaborative filtering to provide Pay TV operators an intelligent navigation platform for expanding content portfolios that promises wins for operator and viewer alike.…
France’s third largest telecom operator has deployed a part of Motorola’s Medios software to enhance the personalization and marketing capabilities of its IPTV platform.…
Evidence from the Cable Show, including news from Comcast on a new cloud-based platform, indicates the once-frozen cable user interface (UI) is beginning to adapt to the digital era. …
In a move bolstering its multi-screen back office platform, SeaChange International is licensing content recommendation source code from Aprico that promises both better experience for consumers and more revenue for Pay TV operators.…
Content discovery has a big impact on the perception people have of their Pay TV service, so it matters how long it takes to find a movie on Saturday night. That is why Pay TV operators need to…
Swisscom’s TV-Guide and Remote Control app is helping consumers on the discover-learn-consume content journey. It has increased interest levels in VOD and is proving to be a sales channel for pay sports events.…
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.…
Google announced a major software update for Google TV last week which, while not named as such, is effectively Google TV 2.0 and therefore gives us an idea of what we can expect when the Android OS based…
ZON TV Cabo, the Portuguese Pay TV provider, is making a bold attempt to recapture the imagination of the ‘Apple generation’ in a highly competitive market where telco incumbent Portugal Telecom has blazed to nearly a million subscribers…
Metadata does not get the attention it deserves in conference sessions about the future of TV, but it was fully recognised on a mini panel at IBC 2011 on the NDS stand titled ‘The Changing Media Landscape’. “The…
Liberty Global has revealed what the cable TV experience will look like in future for its customers across all its European cable systems. Mike Fries, the company’s CEO, used the first day of the IBC conference to demonstrate…
One point of agreement among the three members of a mini panel on Design & Usability on the NDS stand at IBC 2011 was that operators should not consult customers over the design of the UI (User Interface)…
One-quarter of all the content Virgin Media customers are viewing through the company’s new TiVo platform is discovered without using the ‘traditional’ programme guide. This is the clearest example yet of how the addition of sophisticated content recommendation…
Content discovery is going to be high on the agenda at IBC2011 thanks to its potential to increase consumer engagement with content and therefore raise the perceived value of a Pay TV subscription. If service providers can guide…
With a greater focus on content discovery, and also a growing interest in whether Pay TV operators can use customer knowledge to push products like DVDs and CDs, metadata is moving into the spotlight.…
The BBC is looking for ways to make BBC iPlayer a more personalised experience, including on TV, and wants the industry to provide solutions, with viewer laziness and privacy two of the hurdles that must be overcome.…
The EPG is changing. Whether it is cover art downloaded via broadband or independent editorial and reviews, or recommendations, the goal is to encourage more engagement with services and so increase customer loyalty.…
In order to provide the content choice people want, in a consumer friendly way, the whole television user experience is undergoing something of a revolution. One of the keys to success is balancing innovation with familiar behaviours.…
Consumers will log into their TV service, possibly using fingerprint recognition, in order to increase security in a world where there is going to be more content, and possibly more inappropriate content, available through the TV. Regina Bernhaupt,…
By helping users navigate services more easily, point-and-click and gesture based remote controls boosted ARPU by 27% during an Amsterdam trial. uWand claims this is a mass-market concept in waiting, with a clear business case.…
Media fragmentation combined with an increased focus on content discovery means consumers could increasingly refer to a new generation of Interactive Programme Guide. This could be a good place for new forms of advertising.…
Pay TV trials of TV Genius personalized content recommendation are proving an uplift in Pay Per View purchases of 20-30%. Here, the company’s CEO Tom Weiss discusses the wider benefits of improved content discovery in terms of customer…
There will be a rush of Pay TV operators looking to use over-the-top with Connected TV applications to extend their service reach and increase customer loyalty, including making their subscription services available in holiday homes or on a…
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