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Deals, encoding and standards can lower barriers to scaling multi-screen TV
Cablevision supports nearly 300 linear channels on its iPhone app and Time Warner Cable added live TV to the PC this week. Content rights are still causing inertia but the obstacles to scaling multi-screen TV are not insurmountable....
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Canadian telco Telus is expanding the multi-screen options for its Optik TV service. The company is using a cloud-based platform to mobile-enable its content and expects the flexibility to leverage any new device in under three months.…
Finding consumer acceptance, multi-screen video is on a growth spurt. Some operators are now launching services outside their footprint, many are increasing their network capacity, and the industry at large is bracing for the possibility of accelerating change.…
Cisco debuted elements of its evolving Videoscape platform at CES, including software licensed from ActiveVideo Networks that enables Cloud TV applications. The deal, along with recent legal wins, boosts ActiveVideo’s standing and opportunities for deployment.…
Multi-screen video is delivering at least four distinct benefits for Orange in France. First, the France Telecom company is meeting consumer demand for content anywhere, a concept that it pioneered. The second major benefit, and perhaps a more…
TalkTalk aims to differentiate itself in the UK broadband market by providing the best Quality of Experience for OTT multi-screen TV delivered to any devices inside its customer homes, and by making the IP content that will become…
For service providers already offering multi-screen TV, one of the biggest challenges next year will be expanding the line-up of linear channels so it goes beyond an ‘experimental’ sub-set of the television package and starts to replicate what…
Monaco Telecom will make its TV services available on the Apple iPad and Android tablets early next year as it looks to provide its customers with more reasons to subscribe. The headline strategy for the cable operator, outlined…
Cox Communications President Pat Esser has said a streaming video-to-the-iPad application would be “coming out in a month.” Esser made the announcement during a conversation with Motorola Mobility Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha at the opening session of…
It looks as if multi-screen TV is going to create a new customer support challenge for service providers who are expected to take responsibility for video services delivered to tablets and smartphones in the home. Where a Pay…
Smarter payment systems can help service and content providers monetize their assets in the multi-screen environment. Here, Jonathan Guthrie, CEO at PayWizard, points out that consumers are used to paying for multimedia on tablets and smartphones, so harnessing…
Eighteen per cent of service providers plan to deploy a new online TV solution as a replacement for their existing Pay TV platform to enable them to reach multiple screens, according to a live poll conducted during this…
Judging by the impact of the Yelo service since its launch in December 2010, multi-screen TV can increase overall viewing on a Pay TV platform. Ignacio Garcia-Legaz, Vice President Product Management TV at Telenet, the Belgian cable operator…
Swedish cable operator Com Hem is developing a unified backoffice that will enable it to launch a multi-screen TV offering that uses the same content workflow and business and operations systems as its managed cable TV services. Speaking…
ZON TV Cabo, the Portuguese cable operator, hopes to launch its IRIS multi-screen TV service in November, initially targeting the PC and Apple iPad. The PC offer is actually available to customers today in what is described as…
Customer retention is the No.1 priority for BSkyB when it comes to multi-screen service offerings this year. Speaking at the IHS Screen Digest ‘Future of Digital Media Distribution 2011’ conference last week, Holly Knill, Head of Sky Player…
Rovi Corporation believes there is still room for another adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming technology and intends to prove it over the next few years by taking market share for its newly launched DivX Plus Streaming solution. The…
Consumption of BBC programmes on tablets “has gone through the roof” over the last year, according to Daniel Danker, General Manager at the UK broadcaster. And the impact of that is being felt in a number of ways.…
The potential of tablets and smartphones as companion devices has been noted at DISH Network, the U.S. satellite Pay TV operator, which is looking at ways to encourage social interaction around TV. “People are using Apple iPhones and…
RGB Networks believes all video delivery will migrate to adaptive bit rate streaming (ABR), which is a particular approach to IP video where content is encoded at multiple bit rates and resolutions and then split into very short…
The tablet boom has already transformed the TV Anywhere and OTT strategies of some Pay TV operators but the real disruption is yet to come. The tablet market has so far been dominated by Apple with the iPad,…
There is increasing interest in HTTP video. This protocol and its adaptive bit-rate (ABR) cousins have yet to conquer the world. But at least one major vendor thinks all video entering the home will become HTTP-based.…
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…
Mike Fries, CEO at Liberty Global, has admitted that comments by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs during the 2010 D8 Conference inspired his company to deliver what it believes is the next generation of cable TV with its new…
The new Electra 9000 encoder from Harmonic Inc, which was launched today at IBC, will help service providers build the unified video headends they need to scale multi-screen TV offers cost-effectively, thanks to the combination of high-end broadcast…
YES, the Israeli satellite Pay TV provider, expects tablets to have a significant impact on viewing at home. The company launched its Apple iPad application earlier this year and Itzhak Elyakim, VP Engineering & CTO at the company,…
Multi-screen TV is approaching a tipping point now as the Pay TV pioneers look to expand their offers to cover more channels as well as more devices, and more service providers launch TV Everywhere packages. One of the…
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.…
YouSee is using Connected TV and multi-screen generally to reach beyond its HFC network and target every Danish home as a potential VOD customer. TV Everywhere has already helped to reduce churn and avoid multi-play discounting.…
This year’s priority for the German VOD service is to become available on as many connected TV devices as possible. Meanwhile, the company is driving consumers from linear TV to on-demand and looking to differentiate via the user…
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