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BT promises revolution on the big TV screen
The incumbent UK telco is rolling out 18 pay linear channels, delivered as multicast IPTV over fibre. It has invested in top-tier sports rights and has a compelling next-gen platform in the form of YouView. It claims it is increasing choice and lowering the price for Pay...
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The UK’s largest TV platform, Freeview, is worried that the government consultations on the future of the 700MHz frequencies could leave less room for DTT to innovate, like offering more HD. Letting it stagnate would be bad for…
Retiring HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter says you need 60+ inch TVs to benefit from 4K pictures and only 30% of the U.S. market has room for them, so there are no grounds for investing….unless we get…
The U.S. telco Sprint is bullish about the arrival of 4G/LTE, arguing that it can deliver the QoS needed for HD video. The company believes mobile video is now the main source of mobile competition and revenue growth.…
The organisation that helps create technology roadmaps for European cable has outlined a four point plan on the road to true mobility, from home Wi-Fi to LTE, taking in Hotspots and HomeSpots along the way.…
In a speech to delegates at TV Connect in London, Tore Melling, Director of Business Strategy at Nordic operator Canal Digital, laid out his vision of how the company could address Pay TV’s ‘downward spiral’.…
The French TV watchdog, the CSA, is proposing that DVB-T2 should incorporate HEVC in order to modernise the DTT platform. Orange France is already leading the way with HEVC deployment on its Connected TV VOD service.…
Guy Bisson at IHS Screen Digest has painted a picture of a cable industry that is in great health thanks to the triple-play and upselling, even if TV customers are falling.…
The CTOs from KD, Virgin Media, Liberty Global, Comcast and TWC have been discussing their ambitions to take a bigger share in the wireless value chain, including WiFi and wireless backhaul.…
Mike Fries says his company’s “appropriately modest” approach to mobile in the past is changing, and that having a quad-play option is going to be an important piece of the cable puzzle.…
The German cable operator views the Comcast reference design kit as a way to unify the cable industry in the way that DOCSIS did and boost competitive position. RDK is designed to accelerate development of new hardware platforms.…
In a surprising admission at Cable Congress, the head of one of Europe’s best known telcos wished that she had the broadband capacity and TV customer base of cable operators.…
The opening message at Cable Congress was that cable is now cool, with the best broadband and a compelling user experience, and that regulators finally appreciate its contribution to digital strategies.…
Whether they are delivering their own video services or enabling a better QoE for content partners, mobile operators could play a bigger role in the video market thanks to LTE broadcast.…
The new HEVC compression standard will be a game-changer for television. Orange will use the codec for a new VOD service on Smart TVs this spring and at least one cable operator is looking ahead to UHD as…
STB virtualisation would mean moving STB functions to the cloud, avoiding hardware.…
In the IPTV domain, constant bit rate (CBR) has overshadowed variable bit rate (VBR). Capped VBR and progressive download, however, are two emerging use cases, as is the application of VBR techniques to adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming.
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Generally deployed in private networks, IP multicast offers bandwidth efficiencies for operators with enough viewers watching the same content. On the other hand, IP unicast provides better support for on-demand and multi-screen viewing, and potential monetization. Multicast could…
The next-generation compression standard, which will be ratified early next year, will be twice as efficient as H.264, enabling better quality OTT video for low bandwidth networks as well as greater reach and more channels for telcos offering…
Bracing for an era of IP video, U.S. cable operators specified increasingly dense networking gear that handles video and data; here is an update on equipment that has begun to appear.…
The arrival of more end devices and video streams has pushed monitoring requirements up another notch. At Cable Tec Expo Miranda is highlighting solutions that let operators probe into signal impairments and comply with loudness rules.…
Harmonic will unveil what it claims is the first true CCAP solution next week, tripling QAM density and opening the way for unified video/data architectures that let cable operators re-allocate spectrum between linear, on-demand and data with ease.
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Consumer demand for sports coverage continues to drive content delivery innovation, with service providers, such as Epic TV, Viaplay and Digiturk, adopting a range of CDN technologies based on their target audience and tolerance for in-house builds vs…
The company has strengthened its online video hosting and transcoding capabilities with the acquisition of Zencoder and believes the stars are aligning for cloud video processing.…
Cloud computing can help Pay TV operators innovate more quickly, like using a new operating model called ‘Devops’ that helps companies like Google and Netflix complete software fixes in 12 hours. It also makes it possible to harness…
Two examples of maturing multi-screen technology (from Edgeware and Broadpeak) show an industry turning its attention from initial deployments to high-velocity operations and solving the problems of scale. …
The latest version of the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard promises to drive even more video across wireless local area networks than its predecessor, if not as much as what may lie further ahead.…
Content distribution once was a relatively locked-down, point-to-point proposition, but an increasing number of both sources and endpoints changed that model. Anxiety over security has grown accordingly. How to secure content in the multi-screen era is an open…
Consumer dissatisfaction with cable and Pay TV in general—over high rates, too many unwatched channels, cumbersome navigation, inferior customer service, etc.—has helped fuel the widespread interest over the past few years in Internet-based video start-ups. Sometimes called “cable…
Liberty Global’s Horizon set-top is the gift that keeps giving. Announced in 2009 and unveiled at IBC2011, the hybrid box and multimedia gateway is finally approaching an official launch. Apart from the rolling deployment timeline, this multi-dimensional project…
In response to greater consumer choice and the rising complexity of video services, the pay TV industry and its technology partner have shifted attention to QoE, a more customer-focused metric than QoS.…
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