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
Seeking Support for Open Internet, FCC Chairman Plays the Cable TV Card 16 April 2015
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler courted broadcasters’ support for the FCC’s Open Internet rules in his keynote address to the National Assn. of Broadcasters Wednesday, comparing the government’s plans with “must carry” rules broadcasters have advocated and supported. “Broadcasters have always been concerned about … Continue reading
Netflix Gains More Users Than Projected, Benefits From Cord Cutting and Cable Decline 16 April 2015
Netflix Inc. added a better-than-expected 4.88 million subscribers in the March quarter, as the streaming service sacrificed some profits to keep up its aggressive international expansion. Investors cheered the subscriber growth, which topped Netflix’s own forecast for 4.05 million additions. … Continue reading
IPTV market claims 17.39 million subs in 2014 16 April 2015
Boosted by a healthily growing fixed broadband market, the global IPTV market comprised 117.39 million subscribers at the end of 2014 according to Point Topic research. The analyst found that strong growth for IPTV continued with a second consecutive recorded … Continue reading
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