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Apple’s demands for 30% of revenue made from in-app purchases ended Belgacom’s ambitions for transactional VOD on the iPad as part of its multi-screen service. Unless the fees reduce, operators could turn to browser solutions.…
Finnish digital television and broadband services provider Maxisat has chosen a video quality assurance solution from Agama Technologies to support its nationwide HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)-based video service to connected TVs.…
The annual U.S. collegiate basketball tournament, aka March Madness, generates huge amounts of online traffic, which is served up by Major League Baseball (MLB) Advanced Media, LP, a notable presence in video streaming. …
MPEG-DASH is gathering momentum and Envivio has been showing how live DASH content can be delivered to a PC and Android tablet. The company also anticipates raised quality and security demands on the iPad 3.…
Satellite video provider racked up awards at CES 2012 for its Hopper whole-home DVR system; now it has launched the Hopper and Joey combo to win customers and move its video business back into positive territory. …
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.…
Execs from PBS, Disney/ABC and HBO who spoke at last week’s Satellite 2012 Show said that ultra high-def (UHD) TV held promise, but that 3D was being limited by the need for glasses and questions about its impact…
The Danish cable operator hopes to have a trial running by early 2013 with a small number of channels. It is investigating how to make an OTT service available beyond its existing TV or broadband subscriber base.…
A recent report calculates that the total number of hours spent watching Netflix streaming in the U.S. was 80 percent higher than the hours spent watching Pay TV VOD in Q4 2011…
The Spanish Pay TV provider uses the new brand for any content it delivers OTT. Besides ‘TV Everywhere’, it has a standalone OTT/multi-screen subscription and can reach 4 million potential new customers as a result. …
Pay TV operators could honour UltraViolet rights by streaming VOD movies, making content available via their EPG. Even if someone else took the original revenue, the justification is subscriber loyalty, service fees and potential advertising.…
Rogers Communications is dynamically inserting advertisements into its Rogers On Demand program streams during mid-roll breaks. These mid-roll ads and dynamic pre-roll insertion of content promotions began last month, according to systems integrator and on-demand technology provider SeaChange…
Content providers Disney/ABC and HBO see more stability in their business models, despite the market flux and new entrants, than in their technology, which requires increasingly sophisticated and automated management.…
Videonet was reporting from Cable Congress, where leading cable executives tend to open up about their strategies, hopes and fears. Here are some top level impressions we took away from this year’s conference.…
The third-generation iTab goes on sale this Friday, and demand already has outstripped supply available for pre-orders. Meanwhile, Apple’s stock value is hitting new highs in the $550s, giving it a market capitalization well over $500 billion. In…
Liberty Global’s CEO thinks the cable industry can afford to pause when it hits speeds of 50Mbps. With telcos on the run and regulators happy with cable, it is time to figure out the business model for 50+Mbps.…
Guy Bisson at IHS Screen Digest says digital TV upgrades can drive video revenues for European cable but the future is a convergence-inspired next-gen bundle that includes multi-screen TV. Cable should look to partner with OTT providers.…
When the cable execs sat down with the content providers at Cable Congress, there was mutual respect, admissions of mutual reliance but certainly no love-in. Viacom made it clear that they value cable, but they want them to…
Mike Fries has told delegates at Cable Congress that the Horizon multi-screen TV service, which rolls out with various Liberty Global cable operators this year, is not a response to OTT, and it could attract extra Euros.…
The multi-screen TV service from Belgian cable operator Telenet now has 250,000 regular users from a footprint of 2 million homes. Tablets account for 40% of usage, and kids are making the most use of it.
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People are about to fall back in love with their televisions or, to use the precise phrase used by Neil Berkett, CEO at the UK cable operator Virgin Media, the social screen. At Cable Congress in Brussels he…
Set-top boxes may be on the decline, but when an OTT service provider makes you an offer, there may be some hardware that comes with it, such as a Roku box, or the Jazztel box from Zinwell. …
Among Pay TV operators, there are two general places to transcode video for multi-screen delivery: in the network or in the home. Operators also have a choice between centralizing and distributing network-based transcoding. Home gateways such as UPC’s…
Promising flexibility and write-once-deploy-everywhere efficiency, the latest (fifth) iteration of HTML is gaining adherents, even in its pre-standard form, which the BBC has found inconsistently implemented on various connected TV platforms.…
Comcast AnyPlay makes the complete linear channel line-up available on an Apple iPad around the home, demonstrating how a cable operator can try to maintain its role as premium aggregator on these devices
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There is a growing amount of evidence to suggest that people are watching linear channels in favour of on-demand content on multi-screen TV services. Both Stofa in Denmark and Belgacom in Belgium say linear dominates.…
Despite the interest in using connected TVs as thin clients for multi-room DVR, operators will still provide their own thin client STBs. There is a view that Smart TVs will become out-of-date in mid-life, requiring new set-tops anyway.…
The headlines spoke of “capsizing,” “sinking” and “abandon(ing) ship.” The bigger news may be that the U.S. cable-industry advertising consortium Canoe Ventures, which announced a reduction in staff from 150 to 30 last week, is still afloat. Dismissing…
It is difficult to exaggerate the rise of mobile data and the role that video plays in this surging trend. The numbers are just that high. Start with the devices themselves. According to market research firm Canalys, in…
Cable Congress is traditionally the best place to find out what the European cable industry is thinking. Liberty Global, Telenet, Virgin Media, Kabel Deutschland and ZON are among those discussing their strategies this year.…
The Irish triple-play operator is expanding its AerTV OTT platform and wants to make its IPTV channels available online and use this as the basis for future expansion. It is also going international using OTT. …
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