The next billion OTT viewers will be able to stream HD online, claims Irdeto 20 April 2015
The next billion OTT platform viewers will be those consumers who will be able to stream HD content online as new compression technologies get adopted, eliminating one of the major limitations – bandwidth availability. Irdeto believes that currently there are … Continue reading
Gov’t may block Comcast-Time Warner merger, new boost for Net Neutrality 20 April 2015
According to a report by Bloomberg finance news agency, the Department of Justice is “nearing a recommendation” to stop Comcast from purchasing Time Warner Cable. The two firms involved in the potential deal are already the largest and second-largest cable … Continue reading
Internet TV to replace linear in 20 years, says Netflix 20 April 2015
Over the next 20 years internet TV and video on demand platform are going to replace linear TV as the way that people consume video, according to Netflix president and CEO Reed Hastings. Speaking on the firm’s first quarter earnings … Continue reading
Video infrastructure set to rocket 37% despite virtualization 20 April 2015
Video infrastructure markets will continue to grow at a relatively healthy pace of 37% over the next five years, despite the impact of visualization separating hardware and software requirements. According to ABI Research, broadcast pre- and post-production, video encoding, and … Continue reading
Making OTT content available on TV screens a possible way forward in India 20 April 2015
As video content increasingly seems to be consumed, shared and generated, the traffic of such content over the internet is increasing. In fact OTT media apps seem to be one of the few services that are earning large revenues for … Continue reading
Time Shifted TV Viewing Is The Default 17 April 2015
According to new research from Hub Entertainment Research “Time Shifting” viewers, who have broadband and watch at least 5 hours of TV per week, time-shift more TV than they watch live. The average viewer says that 47% of the TV shows … Continue reading
NAB 2015: Content discoverability to be the top challenge for the TV biz, “and there’s no number two” 17 April 2015
With the digital, global, avalanche of content ever growing and never slowing, discoverability will be the number one challenge in the video on demand industry’s future, according to panellists on a forward-looking TV panel at the National Association of Broadcasters … Continue reading
Most Moviegoers Wouldn’t Pay More Than $10 for Day-and-Date VOD, says Survey 17 April 2015
How much value do consumers place on the ability to see a film at home when it’s still playing in the theaters? Not as much as Hollywood would like, it appears. According to a recent survey by RBC Capital Markets, 87% … Continue reading
Internet Bills To Rise As Cable TV Heads Into ‘Veritable Bloodbath’ 17 April 2015
Cord cutting, combined with more consumer-friendly rules from the CRTC, will send Canada’s telecoms into a TV-services “bloodbath” from which they will recover by raising prices for internet services, market observers say. The latest signs that cord-cutting is beginning to … Continue reading
Netflix Doesn’t Want to Kill HBO. It Wants to Kill TV. 17 April 2015
We’ve heard a lot about the battle between HBO and video on demand service Netflix in recent months, prompted by HBO’s move to offer its own Netflix-like Web service. But Netflix’s bumper Q1 earnings yesterday gave CEO Reed Hastings a … Continue reading
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