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Jazztel shifts from IPTV to OTT, Prisa extends reach
In a sign of the times, a major telecommunications provider that once offered an IPTV service has launched an over the top (OTT) service in its place. Spanish telecom Jazztel, which shuttered its IPTV service in 2010, partnered with Prisa and Nagra on a TV service it began...
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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.…
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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Turk Telekom Group has found it considerably easier to expand a Web TV service than a fully managed IPTV offering, and the company is making direct additional revenues from it. The ‘Tivibu Web’ service now has 1.2 million…
Matthew Huntington, Vice President of Product Marketing at Nagra, predicted this week that even major Pay TV operators like BSkyB with 10 million subscribers would find it cheaper to go all-OTT within a decade than to continue using…
Service providers must not be ostriches and stick their heads in the sand when it comes to making OTT content available to consumers. That is the view of Jason Wong, Director Product Marketing at TiVo, whose company is…
John Barrett, Director of Research at the research and consulting firm Parks Associates, is advising Pay TV operators to integrate YouTube into their service and to at least think about partnering with online movie aggregator Netflix where the…
At IBC2011, Giles Wilson, Head of Technology, Solution Area TV, Ericsson, explained why OTT is no longer a dirty word for Pay TV operators who can harness Internet technologies to deliver their multi-screen services. He argues that given…
If connected TV services are to carry premium content that people are willing to pay for, security must be highly renewable with the whole ecosystem under constant surveillance for threats. It must be possible to authenticate Consumer Electronic…
The introduction of IP services as part of a hybrid satellite/IP offering has boosted the offer of Israeli satellite operator YES, which is also benefiting from all the VOD consumer education that went before. But as Itzhak Elyakim,…
Doubts over the ability of OTT (over-the-top) services to deliver broadcast quality TV are being dispelled by increases in bandwidth and advances in adaptive bit rate streaming (ABRS) technologies, but there are still concerns over security. This emerged…
Conax announced its Conax Contego Unite content protection solution today at IBC, a platform that provides umbrella management of its conditional access for set-top boxes, its own Conax DRM client and multiple open market DRMs starting with Microsoft…
In the digital age, the cable industry can hedge its bets on whether they can maintain their dominance as content aggregators by exploiting their broadband infrastructure for alternative over-the-top (OTT) viewing, according to Bill Roedy, Former Chairman and…
In the build-up to IBC we are putting the spotlight on a handful of products we think are worth special attention at the show. This week it is VideoGuard Connect from NDS, a DRM designed to provide higher…
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can become fully fledged Pay TV operators in their own right by establishing end-to-end managed infrastructures. This is the view of John Paul, Chief Product Officer at EchoStar Advanced Technologies, which earlier this year…
OTT video consumption on multiple screens in the home is driving the demand for higher broadband speeds at German cable operator Net Cologne, which pioneered 100Mbps on VDSL and then DOCSIS 3.0.…
One of the consequences of more connected devices, and something that is not talked about enough, according to Informa analyst Andrew Ladbrook, is the potential for telcos to replace full IPTV with OTT delivery.…
RTL Now, the online catch up TV service from German broadcaster RTL, is achieving average 20 minute viewing sessions, which Marc Schroder, CEO at RTL Interactive, describes as “amazing and comforting” in this ANGA 2011 briefing. RTL is…
The Italian telco has no plans to expand its closed network IPTV offer beyond the current footprint and will rely on the Cubovision OTT offer to market video services nationwide, delivering content via connected TVs and its own…
Deutsche Telekom has admitted that competition from cable broadband requires a fibre response but it will only roll out services where there is clear customer demand. Meanwhile it is pursuing cable’s housing association TV customers.…
Vodafone TV in Germany is offering an interesting hybrid service harnessing both cable and satellite signals for linear TV but offering value-added IPTV services, which can include live HDTV streaming. Here Mathias Kroemer, Head of Marketing at Vodafone…
Paul Berriman, CTO at PCCW, has warned OTT aggregators that their best hope of long-term success is to partner with Pay TV operators. He is confident content owners recognise the added-value and ARPU service providers deliver.…
The growth of OTT has made content owners appreciate the value of Pay TV, according to AT&T, which is focused on building a TV Everywhere experience despite some practical hurdles with content rights.…
Here is our final round-up of the major news announcements from IP&TV World Forum, covering developments in multi-screen and Internet video delivery, the connected home, QoE, the next-generation user experience and much more.…
The average Netflix subscriber watches 25 hours of content a month. While its executives say it is complementary to the overall entertainment budget, its continued growth, and dominance on connected TVs, must threaten traditional VOD revenues.…
Service providers are still fighting to avoid becoming ‘dumb pipes’ who carry OTT content but cannot monetize it. They are being urged to become CDN providers who make money by enabling higher quality video delivery.…
With the evolution of their own multi-screen TV and OTT strategies, Pay TV operators are increasingly confident they can counter cord cutting. But Hulu has made it clear that OTT will disrupt them, and it will hurt.…
To compete seriously with Pay TV, OTT providers will have to deliver HD quality to large connected TV screens. Cisco says public CDNs cannot deliver the QoS needed, but telcos can.…
Content owners are going to expect more from content security in anticipation of a high bandwidth Internet future. With OTT providers starting to spend big on content, there is a market waiting for them.…
Judging by early news announcements, this year’s show will be dominated by the user experience, hybrid managed/OTT services and multi-screen TV. Here are other pre-show announcements categorized by their main interest.…
Netgem has made its Home Cloud software development kit available to application developers. This will develop its partner ecosystem to enable third parties to take advantage of its IPTV 2.0 open architecture.…
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