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Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Television goes smart in dramatic makeover - 0 views

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  • Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September
  • smart TV
  • Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas
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  • ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
  • “dumb” monitors
  • Retailers are looking to increase their margins
  • Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
  • Netflix,
  • Technology companies aim to serve all sides
  • network equipment makers
  • fighting among themselves over standards.
  • Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
  • Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
  • Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
  • Google’s developer conference
  • Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
  • experimentation.
  • competing services on the same device
  • etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
  • , Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
  • Google TV as a unifying solution
  • app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
  • Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
  • Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
  • “Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
  • “Different markets around the world have different requirements,
  • problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
  • TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
Alex Street

FT.com / Management - Apple takes a second bite at TV - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • y 8Gb of storage, c
  • 160Gb in the previous version
  • streaming media player
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  • jostles with games consoles, laptops that can wirelessly transmit what is on their screen to the TV, and similar media players f
  • $99 price tag marks a recognition of the stiff competition
  • istances it from the Mac Mini, a small-box computer that some Apple fans saw as a better value
  • enabled home-sharing in iTunes on my PC to share its content with Apple TV.
  • Netflix streaming film service, YouTube, Flickr
  • Being able to access a computer on a home network means anything stored in iTunes can be played or watched on the big screen
  • Many set-top boxes and Blu-ray players in the US offer Netflix
  • losest competitor to Apple TV in functionality is Roku’s box.
  • Roku may lack YouTube but it has more than 85 “channels” of internet content, including Netflix, Amazon’s video-on-demand service, Pandora internet radio, the MOG music streaming service,
  • Apple TV’s narrower content is its biggest weakness.
  • s synergies with other Apple devices –
  • Remote app allows control with touch gestures on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
  • ame kind of apps as an iPhone or iPad in the future
Alex Street

FT.com / Telecoms - Nokia Siemens wins $7bn Harbinger deal - 0 views

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solariscasestudy harbinger nokiasiemens NSN

shared by Alex Street on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • SN, which is jointly owned by Finland’s Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced that it would strengthen its position in the US by buying most of Motorola’s network infrastructure unit for $1.2bn.Harbinger’s $7bn contract award to NSN underlines the h
  • $7bn contrac
  • ightSquared, w
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  • business model is based on securing wholesale rather than retail customers
  • 40,000 base stations that will cover 92 per cent of the US population by 2015.
  • eight-year contract w
  • Nokia Siemens Networks to build a high-speed mobile phone network in the US.
  • nfrastructure will combine an orthodox mobile network with a satellite-based phone and data service
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    design, build and maintain the new network.
Alex Street

FT.com / Telecoms - Deutsche Telekom looks to fund for US push - 0 views

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  • Harbinger is not planning to provide services to consumers, but instead wants to strike wholesale deals with established mobile operators and potential new entrants in the telecoms industry
  • t started reporting falling revenue and profit last year
  • inability to capitalise on the growing consumer appetite to
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  • e fourth-largest US mobile operator was two years behind its rivals with the roll-out of a network based on 3G technology
  • fter buying radio spectrum, T-Mobile USA finally built a 3G network that covered 205m people by last December, and this year began offering industry-leading download speeds.
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - TV watchers spoilt for choice by internet services - 0 views

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Alex Street

FT.com / Companies / Retail - Walmart rises in digital battle - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Walmart has used its retail power and influence to get Vudu installed on a range of new devices that it would normally not have had access to, such as Sony’s PlayStati
  • es: the new Apple TV has no hard disc
  • in the US, digital rental transactions rose more than 50 per cent in 2010 to 38m, compared with 25m transactions in 2009.
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  • Consumers clearly now prefer access to ownership
Alex Street

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  • KT, which controls nearly half the country’s internet market, estimates about 1m smart TVs had been sold in South Korea by the end of last year,
  • Samsung, which aims to sell 50m TVs this year globally with half of those being internet-enabled. LG also aims to install its own internet platform on about 60 per cent of its TV shipments.
Alex Street

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
  • Alex Street on 06 Sep 10
     
    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Google plans pay-per-view films - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • global pay-per-view video service
  • international appeal of a streaming
  • on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube
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  • hell of a lot of eyeballs
  • is planning a $2bn initial public offering
  • YouTube said it had been beta-testing a film rental service since
Alex Street

FT.com / Technology - Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices - 0 views

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google legal competition watchdog

shared by Alex Street on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • d Google liable for the uploading by YouTube users
  • Federal regulators in Washington have looked into the competitive implications of Google acquisitions and other business deals
Alex Street

FT Unappetising truths about à la carte media grazing - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 24 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • satellite and telecom companies’ combined video subscriber numbers fel
  • living without the set top box is clearly becoming more than a theory
  • rise of the digital video recorder, used in 1 per cent of US homes in 2006 and 37 per cent now
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  • ate is increasingly in the hands of bigger technology companies
  • average American watches 35 hours of television a week, and no alternative platform can yet match the diversity
  • ow many of us will really pay 99 cents
  • media groups have the chance to shape the world’s leading TV marke
  • TV Everywhere concept
David Astle

FT.com / UK - British TV groups weigh up web video delivery - 0 views

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CDN VOD 4OD CostofStreaming

shared by David Astle on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Some analysts question whether VoD can be as profitable as broadcast TV. The dual costs of piping internet video into the home and licensing content from producers - both paid out on a per-view basis - "may call into question the level of profits that can be made in the long term" from VoD, says David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum, a media consultancy. "More people are taking more of the pie."
  • Broadcasters already have to pay companies providing "content delivery networks" to ensure their on-demand programming reaches viewers in good quality and without loading-time delays mid-video. Every time a programme is viewed online through their VoD services, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other broadcasters pay a CDN provider such as Akamai, Level 3 or, soon, BT.
  • Today, one half-hour programme costs between 2p and 5p to stream through a CDN every time it is viewed. That may not sound much, but with the BBC iPlayer serving up almost 60m TV shows in November, a broadcaster's CDN costs could already exceed £1m a month.
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Digital film is the future, the issue is timing - 0 views

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lovefilm usagedata subscribers

shared by Alex Street on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.
  • Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,
  • All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk
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