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India to see fourfold increase in OTT services by 2019, says Calvin Koh 29 April 2015
According to the FICCI-KPMG Media and Entertainment 2014 report, with 168 million TV households, India is the second largest TV market after China. However, there is scope for further growth in India’s broadcast industry. Concurring with the same is Singapore Exhibition Services assistant project director (communication events) Calvin Koh, who was in the city to …
OTT is ahead of traditional broadcasting in 4K, finds Qarva 28 April 2015
Live 4K TV delivery by OTT video services is still challenging. There are neither 4K live channels, not broadcast, nor OTT yet. We will see some broadcast 4K channels later this year. The matter is that open Internet connection bitrate goes down as distance increases from Video streaming server to client – this is natural limitation, …
Fox International inks ‘unprecedented’ OTT deals across Asia 27 April 2015
FOX International Channels (FIC) has struck deals with leading networks across Asia to make its channels available in the region on an over-the-top (OTT) basis. In what it calls an unprecedented move, FIC will offer multi-genre OTT video services with Avex in Japan, Tencent and its OTT partners in China, Astro in Malaysia and Cignal …
Argentina, Colombia lead LATAM multiscreen, VOD 24 April 2015
In a market controlled by non-Latin American operators, Argentina, one of the most mature pay-TV markets in the region, also has the highest penetration of multiscreen platforms and video-on-demand (VOD) online services, closely followed by Colombia, says Business Bureau. In its latest report on the region, Business Bureau found that the region has 123 different …
Key Market Predictions You May Have Missed at NAB 2015 23 April 2015
Last week, at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, broadcasters discussed the evolving market and how to adapt to changing viewer habits. Becoming the successful Broadcaster of Tomorrow requires a deep understanding of the millennials driving change in the industry and how to prepare for the fast-approaching digital-first era. The right online …
Canal+ OTT service sees record use for El Clasico 22 April 2015
Spanish pay TV provider Canal+’s Yomvi OTT TV platform passed a live streaming record on March 22, with a football match between Real Madrid and Barcelona being streamed to 376,000 devices, a 29% increase in device reach over the same period last year. According to technology provider Nagra, which provides the MediaLive-based platform for Yomvi, the …
European Commission sets sights on OTT regulatory reform, Net Neutrality on debate 21 April 2015
The European Commission is considering plans which could see a reform of regulatory policies to which over the top communications service providers are held. Draft documents unveiled by the commission have indicated that a level playing field between the telecoms industry, cable operators and alternative services, such as Whatsapp and Skype, has long since been forgotten. …
Rapid Shift to IP TV Supporting ‘Over the Top’ Video Content Streaming 21 April 2015
You are doing over the top (OTT) already if you stream content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Fire TV Stick,Slingbox, ellentube, the recently launched HBO Now and of course YouTube. These are just a few examples. OTT content is anything that reaches you the TV consumer without being mediated by an operator—a broadcast or cable network …
Traditional Television Viewing Continues To Grow Despite VOD Threat 21 April 2015
In reality, television viewing is down by 3% from last year,while video viewing through OTT platforms on Internet, smartphone, and multimedia devices combined is up by 45%. Misleading statistics considering their vastly different starting points. A more telling statistic is that 91% of all video viewing is still to traditional TV (and more than 90% …
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 approximately half a billion people globally with broadband connection over 1.0 Mbps allowing them to …
