In Ireland, AerTV now has 80,000 regular users for its linear OTT service, which provides a bouquet of free-to-air and paid channels. Here Philip Brodeur, Director at Aer TV, explains the freemium business model for the service, the
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April 10, 2013 /
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Ericsson will launch a new compression platform at NAB that will boost performance and reduce cost of ownership across the full spectrum of platform operator encoding requirements. Here Dr Giles Wilson, Head of TV Compression Business at Ericsson,
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April 2, 2013 /
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The Danish cable operator YouSee launched its off-net OTT service, called YouBio, in mid-January. This makes linear movie channels and on-demand movies and series available to the whole of Denmark. Here Mathias Berg, Senior VP at the company,
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March 26, 2013 /
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The Belgian broadcasters VRT, VMMa and SBS Belgium are trialing their new, shared multiscreen app called Stievie, which provides live TV and makes 48 hours of their content available as catch-up. Here Gall Le Garrrec, VP EMEA at
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March 26, 2013 /
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Ericsson recently launched the world’s first complete Broadcast LTE solution and here Simon Frost, Head of TV Marketing at Ericsson, discusses the applications and new business models that the new technology enables, and the future impact of the
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March 20, 2013 /
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ZON, the Portuguese cable operator, has deployed what is probably Europe’s most complete television catch-up TV service, offering seven days of content across 80 channels through a backwards EPG and other navigation tools, delivered as classic QAM cable.
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March 20, 2013 /
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Bruno Berthier, SVP Innovation & Strategy at Neotion, explains his company’s innovative Blue Bridge solution, which uses a Pay TV CAM to create a secure Bluetooth connection between a TV and tablets or smartphones. Applications outlined here include:
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January 9, 2013 /
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Companion screen apps will make interactive TV advertising compelling in a way that will never be possible with Red Button type interaction on the main screen. That is the view of Stefan Jenzowsky, Head of Multimedia at Siemens
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December 12, 2012 /
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IMTV, a new Indonesian satellite operator, views the rapid growth of the middle class in Asia as a great opportunity for the expansion of Pay TV. Here, Felix Ali Chandra, CEO at IMTV, which is part of the
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December 12, 2012 /
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Swisscom aims to harness HEVC encoding first on its multi-screen services but Markus Gisi, Head of TV & Entertainment at the company, reveals here that the telco expects to use HEVC for its classic IPTV services by 2014,
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December 6, 2012 /
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By providing a consistent format for multi-screen TV services, MPEG DASH will play a significant role in how this market evolves, making its presence felt first on HbbTV 1.5 compliant devices in Europe. Thanks to common encryption it
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November 22, 2012 /
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It looks like network PVR is going to become a major addition to multi-screen services in the next couple of years, whether content is stored once or multiple times to meet different legal requirements. Julien Signes, CEO at
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November 6, 2012 /
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Recommendations for linear content create an uplift in premium channel packages. Think Analytics has proved the direct connection between recommendation and upselling in the field. Here, Peter Docherty, Founder and CTO at the company explains how it is
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November 6, 2012 /
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The idea that consumers want to access more web and interactive content through a single UI is being proved on the TiVo platform at Virgin Media. Now the company is offering customers a powerful companion app for the
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October 31, 2012 /
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The biggest impact of the recession on Pay TV is not lost subscribers but the diminished opportunity to acquire previously free-to-air homes, says André Kudelski, Chairman and CEO at Nagra Kudelski Group. For those existing subscribers, Pay TV
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October 24, 2012 /
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As an average, when an engineer goes to a consumer home because of a service problem, they swap the set-top box in half the cases and of the boxes returned, half have no fault. John O’Brien, CEO at
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October 16, 2012 /
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Verimatrix is helping to pioneer the ‘Operator as an App’ model with integrated Smart TV security for the TeliaSonera IPTV app on Samsung Smart TVs, which act as a virtual set-top box. Here Tom Munro, CEO, Verimatrix, outlines
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October 16, 2012 /
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Vodafone Iceland has been enjoying 20% subscriber growth year-on-year and last December recorded over 350,000 on-demand views, including catch-up TV, on a subscriber population of more than 25,000 (last officially available figures). Here Jens Sigurðsson, IPTV Product Manager
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October 16, 2012 /
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Capablue has been working with UKTV to develop a ‘player’ service for Dave and Yesterday, launching initially on PC but later on other devices. These are popular brands that sit just below the leading channels in UK programme
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October 16, 2012 /
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Alfred Ruth, Co-Founder and CTO at Videoplaza is convinced that you can make more money from TV using dynamic advert insertion into IP streams so that different people see different messages, including for linear television. In this IBC
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October 10, 2012 /
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Some of the next priorities in multiscreen delivery are more personalisation and more synchronisation of content on different devices, and making it easier to discover devices and add them to a network. That is the view of Marwan
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October 10, 2012 /
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Samsung and TeliaSonera have partnered to create an IPTV app that automatically loads the platform operator user interface when the Smart TV is turned on, thus acting as if a TeliaSonera set-top box was actually attached. Vassilis Seferidis,
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October 10, 2012 /
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There is an increasing focus on what Pay TV operators can do with their companion apps and in this IBC interview, Francois Moreau de Saint Martin, CEO at Viaccess Orca, outlines his vision for them, from the basics
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October 10, 2012 /
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M6 finds itself in the enviable position where catch-up TV advertising inventory on its M6 Replay service is virtually sold out, prompting it to consider increasing the ad load. In this IBC interview, Christian Bombrun, Deputy MD for
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October 4, 2012 /
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Apple has been good for TiVo in both its CE and service provider business, having raised consumer expectations of what a user experience should be like and made them want the same on their TV. In this IBC
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October 4, 2012 /
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Two of the big technology stories for 2012 are the growing support for HTML5 as the basis for developing user interfaces and the arrival of DNLA Premium Video, which provides content owners with the confidence to make even
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September 27, 2012 /
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In this interview from IBC 2012, Mike Short, VP Public Policy Europe for Telefonica, discusses the role of mobile operators in the evolving content ecosystem, from multiscreen to second screen, and considers the lessons learned when Apple arrived
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September 27, 2012 /
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With the second screen apps ecosystem starting to develop, one company that is talked about more than most is zeebox. In this IBC interview, Anthony Rose, Co-founder and CTO at the company explains how consumers have been using
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September 21, 2012 /
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Young households are deferring cable and satellite subscriptions due to cost, sometimes until they have families, a trend that has yet to reveal itself in subscriber figures, warns Dr Saul Berman, VP & Partner, Global Strategy Consulting Leader
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September 20, 2012 /
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Consulting firm Decipher has just completed a study on the second screen apps market and in this IBC interview MD Nigel Walley offers his conclusions on how this currently confused landscape will evolve. He believes we will see
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September 20, 2012 /
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In this IBC interview, Ramin Farassat, VP of Product Marketing and Business Development at RGB Networks, provides a crisp analysis of where adaptive bit rate streaming could be heading next. It considers the use of just-in-time packaging for
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September 18, 2012 /
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