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Tennis Participation Jumps 43% in nine years - Racquet Sports Industry News - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 16 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • PAC’s 2010 Sports, Fitness, and Recreation Participation Overview
  • PAC report, combined with the TIA/USTA participation study released at the end of 2009
  • improving our pathways into the sport for new players to develop into frequent players
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  • tennis once again ranks as the fastest growing traditional sport in the United States
  • 30 million Americans playing tennis.
  • Cardio Tennis, which was first introduced just five years ago, increased 20% from 2008 and has now pushed past 1.177 million participating in tennis based cardio-vascular exercise.”
  • also a credit to our joint effort with our partners, especially the USTA, in terms of launching programs designed to attract new players into the game, bring people back into tennis, and have current players playing more tennis,
Alex Street

informitv - Views on YouView from Decipher - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • informitv partners Decipher
  • market had failed to provide a solution for TV VOD’ —
  • By the time YouView launches in mid-2011 it will be just another product in an over-supplied market for video-on-demand devices
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  • seven or eight products on sale in the United Kingdom
  • Every new Sony Bravia television screen and Blu-ray disk player has iPlaye
  • every PS3 ever sold in UK can already access iPlayer
  • TV Player, Demand Five and LoveFilm.
  • YouView can only justify itself, and survive commercially, if it delivers something significantly different and compelling into a market already
  • broadcast-centric way of presenting VOD
  • atform is designed and owned by companies that understand content’. I
  • At the outset, the Canvas project was put into the hands of many of the teams who had launched PC VOD ‘players’ for the broadcasters
  • Now it must be said that YouView is likely to be the only player in the short term with catch-up content from all the free-to-air broadcasters
  • Nigel Walley is the managing director of Decipher, an informitv partner.
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

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shared by Alex Street on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Sky Player is available to all 9.5million Sky customer
  • 700% increase in users
  • h Xbox viewers making up 65% of Sky Player total programme views
Alex Street

Sony Global - News Releases - Sony Redefines Home Entertainment with the World's First ... - 0 views

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  • Alex Street on 15 Oct 10
     
    Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Disc Player
Alex Street

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
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  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Alex Street

SeeSaw reaching a sixth of ITV Player's users - Media news - Media Week - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • TV Player reaches 1.3 million users, while 4oD scrapes ahead with 1.4 million.
  • BBC's iPlayer with 6.6 million users.
  • Alex Street on 10 Feb 11
     
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Alex Street

BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer launches on Xbox LIVE - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • 015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices
  • irgin Media plus other services capable of delivering BBC iPlayer direct to TVs, including IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, connected “Smart TVs” and connected set-top boxes, such as Freeview HD, Freesat HD, games consoles and some Blu-Ray players.
  • Alex Street on 08 May 12
     
    BBC projects that by 2015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices.
Alex Street

The Tech Behind Chatroulette - Streaming Media Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 11 May 12 - No Cached
  • building his site on Flash Media Server,
  • Flash Player 10's peer-to-peer ability
  • Wowza Media Server.
Alex Street

What is Video Streaming? | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - 1 views

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shared by Alex Street on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • video delivery mechanisms
  • three widely used ways
  • Progressive Download, RTMP/RTSP Streaming, and Adaptive HTTP Streaming
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  • Progressive Download is the most widely used
  • easiest to implement
  • Progressive Download is supported by Flash, HTML5 browsers
  • bandwidth is wasted on data downloaded but not watched
  • simplicity of Progressive Download also has its downsides.
  • inability to change the quality of the video mid-stream
  • For longer videos, the downsides start to impact playback too much
  • Progressive Download works fine for short clips (a few minutes).
  • RTSP/RTMP Streaming
  • RTMP/RTSP Streaming is widely used by professional media organizations like Hulu
  • only deliver the frames of a video the user is currently watchin
  • most widely solution is used is RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
  • HTML5 does not include a dedicated streaming protocol, nor does the iPad/iPhone
  • RTMP streaming can change video quality mid-stream
  • allows for optimal playback quality in the fullscreen and WiFi/3G scenarios
  • if the connection speed drops below the minimum bandwidth needed for the video, playback will be continuously interrupted.
  • has specific server and protocol requirements, which makes it less accessible and adds significant complexity and cost
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming is a fairly new streaming format
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming works by storing your videos on the server in small fragment
  • daptive HTTP Streaming leverages standard webservers, it is supported by webhosters and CDNs alike.
  • none of the Adaptive HTTP Streaming implementations work with regular MP4 files.
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming will likely become the single video streaming method over time
  • live streaming is not possible,
  • o data is downloaded in advance and data a user has seen is immediately discarded.
Alex Street

Difference between progressive download and streaming online videos - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Streaming video requires access to a streaming media server.
  • When a video streams, it is being sent via UDP protocol to a player on the end users compter. The user will have the ability to fast forward or rewind the video.
  • video isn't being downloaded to the end users computer so it is less likely that the content will be stolen
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  • Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use
  • David Astle on 03 Apr 12
     
    The biggest disadvantage of streaming over progressive download is if the user watches the same video over and over you will pay for the delivery of it each time. Videos are also streamed at what ever bit rate they are encoded at. Keep this in mind when creating HD quality video. 8Mbps video may sound and look great, but most homes can't sustain an 8Mbps connection. If you have really high bit rate video, consider delivering via HTTP. Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use. Historically, Flash video was more expensive to deliver than other forms. Recently prices have compressed and you will find that it costs about the same to deliver Flash or Windows Media files. In the past I would have said if your video is more than 10 minutes in length deliver it via Stream and less do progressive. Since prices
Alex Street

Monterosa to get TV firms making their own second-screen content | Technology | guardia... - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 10 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • ttracted 1.3m players over the show's
  • create synchronised quizzes, audience polling and other interactive features
  • puts control back in the hands of the creative producers
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  • tools will be invitation-only for now, and are aimed at broadcasters, producers and brands.
  • Monterosa developed the tools based on the second-screen projects it has worked on with broadcasters
  • mission is to give them the mechanics to do it themselves."
  • Monterosa's self-service platform
  • useful for smaller digital channels with audiences around the 100,000 mark as for the largest broadcasters.
  • broadcasters don't want to actively promote a third-party service that will capture audience data and monetise it,
Alex Street

Sony Qriocity service takes on Apple iTunes with streaming music and video | Technology... - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Sony has embarked on an ambitious challenge to Apple's iTunes,
  • based around the PlayStation 3
  • movies and songs
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  • web-enabled Sony devices, including its TVs, laptops and digital music players
  • Amazon also thought to be aggressively planning a web-based subscription service
  • online TV-on-demand market is about to expand dramatically.
  • Fujio Nishida, Sony's president for Europe
  • major expansion of its Qriocity
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocity
  • Music streaming will be added to Qriocity by the end of this year.
  • pricing.
  • Initially the service will just work on new network-enabled Bravia TVs, Sony Vaios and the PS3
  • Restricting the service to Sony products may damage take-up
  • open it up over time.
  • 54 million registered PS3s in use worldwide
  • move comes three years after Sony decided to abandon an earlier music streaming site, Connect Music
  • sers were restricted to using Sony hardware and software to listen
Alex Street

Germany Broadband Overview | Broadband Country Overview | Point Topic - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • main players in the German mobile market are T-Mobile, Vodafone, E-Plus and Telefonica O2.
  • 50 mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) i
Alex Street

Google TV to launch this year | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • global TV advertising market
  • oogle TV service,
  • turised version of his Apple TV
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  • full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers
  • Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies:
  • HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitec
  • small apps
  • Adobe's Flash
  • t how easy it will be to integrate content
  • QWERTY keyboards" b
  • t a distance, with one hand, in the dark.
Alex Street

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

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Sony Confirms PlayStation Home 'Quite Profitable' - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • PlayStation Home director Jack Buser h
  • Home features 100 games, an average user session time of 70 minutes, over 50 virtual spaces, 85% repeat users, and 14 million users overall. 
  • 5,000 virtual items Sony has offered for sale through Home's virtual goods store
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  • through micropayments, they can gain social context and social capital,
  • gameplay context, upgrade their gameplay experience through microtransactions.
  • Sony is trying to integrate Home more deeply with the gameplay experience offered by various PS3 games
  • Players of Red Dead Redemption can unlock exclusive Home items through gameplay.
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