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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
  • ...25 more annotations...
  • 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

Ovum Research Store - Consumer Insights: Exploring the TV Apps Opportunity - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 21 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • new use-cases
  • add value for consumers by augmenting and enhancing the TV user experience
  • overview of consumers' online activities by connected device type
  • ...13 more annotations...
  • long-form video-consumption on non-traditional viewing devices
  • elements of the mobile app store model can be effectively adapted for the implementation of TV apps.
  • opportunity to exploit TV apps as a marketing and distribution channel
  • grouping of TV apps into distinct categories
  • ew modes of content delivery and consumption.
  • direct monetization potential
  • marketing, distributing, and accessing online content or services has been instrumental in driving changes in consumer behaviour.
  • demand for multiscreen access to pay-TV services
  • online activity today is TV-related or video-centric
  • kind of TV apps might consumers be prepared to pay?
  • use cases for apps delivered only to TV set
  • mobile apps environment translate
  • web-based services and applications are consumers
Alex Street

Apple Television, AirPlay and Why the iPad is the new TV Apps Platform | Brightcove Blog - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • re-conceptualize how one thinks about TV
  • TV is the last screen to fall as a computing platform
  • argest computer monitor in our lives,
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  • these TV monitors are at the core of all of our major social and economic activities
  • in short the TV monitor as computing platform has failed because of poor execution on software, software user experience, and poor user interaction devices and paradigms
  • e iPhone and iPad in your pocket or handbag is the next-generation TV set-top box,
  • AirPlay allows a user to easily beam any content or application to an Apple TV device.
  • Netflix, MLB At Bat, CNN, MSNBC and dozens of other mainstream video
  • pple introduced two new and inter-related concepts: AirPlay Mirroring and Dual Screen Apps
  • TV Apps are here and they’re all about building dual-screen iPad App
Alex Street

If cord cutting is a myth, why is Wall Street so jittery? - FierceIPTV - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 13 percent are "very likely" to cut the cord in the next 18 months
  • pple TV, Google TV and connected TVs are added to the equation, that number tickles 20 percent. A
  • erosion in pay-TV subscribers
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  • company said pay-TV operators would have to cut their rates (GASP!) in order to keep subscriber
  • poor state of the economy
  • ct of the analog to digital switchover
  • mall, rogue element of malcontents
  • perceived value of pay-TV offerings
Alex Street

A new smart TV or a set-top box? « KoreaDotCom - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • Daum Cloud, which provides 50 gigabytes of storage for free and makes it possible for users to view photos and videos from the storage on TV – a similar mechanism
  • Kim Jee-hyun, director of Daum’s strategy division, painted a picture of bright horizons.
  • Samsung’s Bada smartphone OS,
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  • Android and iOS be the only options
  • Daum TV+, a smart set-top box
  • Daum set-top box, it costs less than 600,000 won for you to have a smart TV set
  • KT, SK Telecom and LG U+ – which operate IPTV are already bracing to cash in on the latest smart TV boom with their own set-top boxes.
  • cable service operators, C&M
  • mart set-top box” running on Android
  • LG CNS, an IT convergence arm of LG
  • KT is set to unveil its self-developed Android-powered set-top box in July at the earlies
  • 37 percent of all TVs sold in Korea this year will be smart TVs, and the figure is expected to climb.
Alex Street

hd and future tv landscape - Google Search - 0 views

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HD USTV

shared by Alex Street on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • [PDF] The Future of TVFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick ViewThe Future of TV. The evolving landscape of HDTV, IPTV and mobile TV. High definition households in. Europe and the US, 2006-2010. Source: The Future of TV ...www.globalbusinessinsights.com/content/rbtc0099m.pdf - Similar[PDF] THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: MAKING SENSE OF TH
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

Here comes Google TV - Google TV Blog - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • new way to think about TV
  • r current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.
  • Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friends—all on the big screen.
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  • HBO will bring access to hundreds of hours of programming to Google TV with HBO GO. Authenticated subscribers w
  • n. Amazon Video On Demand offers access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and Netflix
Alex Street

Top IPTV Providers - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Right now, most of the IPTV offerings out there are really “me-too” o
  • replicate the cable broadcast model
  • AT&T: U-Verse TV offers up to 300 channels includin
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  • Verizon: FiOS TV offers up to 200
  • sche Telekom: T-Home service
  • Belgacom: Belgacom TV include
  • nce Telecom: MaLigne TV (now Orange TV)
  • Telecom Italia: Alice Home TV offer
  • Telefonica: Imagenio servi
  • Swisscom: Bluewin TV offers
  • J, NY,
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

TV on demand | YouGov Labs - 0 views

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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

Move Over Twitter: Facebook Wants a Piece of Social TV, Too - 0 views

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  • Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles
  • also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebritie
  • Facebook Connect allows users to sign into millions of sites
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  • wealth of data provide
  • page is used as a hub
  • t MIPTV, Facebook outlined four key ways that the platform can be used to encourage social TV behaviour:
  • Building TV Communities
  • og onto the CBS website using Facebook Connect. Instantly, CBS has access to all that user’s favourite actors,
  • One picture had 10,000 likes- the average user has 130 friends on average
  • Facebook is Topgear.com’s second largest traffic driver
  • 2.     Social Check in
  • TV check in lets TV
  • check into each episode of a series
  • see that actually ten of their friends are also watching Top Gear at the same
  • ocial EPG
  • Million Pound Drop:
  • wildly successful Facebook game
  • 8-10% of the TV audience played the game
  • voting is monetised through a sponsorship.
Alex Street

Connected TV sport app from BBC | Advanced Television - 0 views

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  • seamlessly integrating linear TV with online and on-demand
  • focusing on Formula 1,
  • Euro 2012, Wimbledon and London 2012 Olympic Games
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  • BBC News and Sport apps both launch immediately on Virgin Media’s TiVo
  • t step in the BBC’s strategy to bring its content to audiences across four screens:
  • 36 million connected TVs installed in
Alex Street

olleh :: KT to show a world connected by 'media contents' at the World IT Show - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 18 May 12 - No Cached
  • lobal media contents distribution group’
  • communication via media contents
  • Ustream, Genie, Kibot
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  • future of Smart Convergence
  • Communicating with the world through video contents
  • Genie, a cloud music service
  • Genie, a cloud based music service, Olleh e-Book, an electronic book service,
  • Olleh TV Now.
  • 0 live channels, 21,000 pieces of VOD
  • other content via N Screen o
  • Olleh Smart Phone Film Festival
  • Ustream, KT's global live broadcasting platform
  • Genie, a digital music application for smartphone
  • TV Jockey
  • look up anything while watching TV on his smart device in real time.
  • V Jockey app gives the same view as the TV
  • finds anything on TV that he wants to know more about, whether it is about a person, a place, a product, an episode or a line, he can simply touch it on the TV Jockey app
  • Touch&Pay
  • can participate in the production of audio books by reading
  • information [KT exhibits at WIS]
Nick Verkroost

Samsung Apps TV Store surpasses 10m downloads - Sammy Hub - 0 views

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  • Samsung’s TV Apps Store
  • App Store surpassed 10m app downloads in September
  • 50,000 app downloads per day
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  • localized apps ruled in different regions like NDTV Convergence in India, Lovefilm in UK, Berliner Philharmoniker in Germany
  • YouTube, Maps, Accuweather, Vimeo and vTuner Internet Radio remained at the top of the charts globally
  • consumption has doubled since the App Store’s last milestone of 5m in May
  • Samsung TV Apps Store now has a selection of over 1000 apps
Alex Street

Advertising Services | Miniweb Technologies Ltd - Connected TV - 0 views

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    et of standard ad formats that are adapted to TV screen  Multiple targeting dimensions (contextual, demographic, behavioural, geographic)Full service available for publishers (ad sales/management, ad serving)Accountable advertising - web-style targeted advertising on TV
Alex Street

US subscription TV posts another quarterly subscriber loss - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q
  • e companies have been losing half a million subscriber
  • During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate
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  • PTV and satellite sectors compensated for churned cable subscribers (and more) by netting over 770,000 new subscribers per quarter
  • the total number of TV subscriptions grew by almost two million subscribers since Q3 2008, and the growth in digital cable subscriptions increased the sector's video ARPU by a healthy 7 per cent.
  • y did subscription TV households shrink since 1 April, 2010
  • churn contagion has reached the digital side
  • digital growth seems to be slowing down for most other cable operators as well
  • They collectively added 380,000 digital subs in Q3 2010, down from 636,000 in Q2 and 860,000 in Q1
  • reduced digital subscriber growth rates in the near future or even net losses.
  • ge (in basic or digital subscriptions alike) has been blamed on macroeconomic weakness.
  • Providers insist that they have not seen evidence of 'cord-cutting'
  • ite' TV packages, like the one being launched by TWC, are meant to counter the adverse impact of the economy by making subscription TV affordable
  • confirmed that these losses have been caused, not by higher than usual gross churn rates, but by historically low demand for new connections.
  • ative of 'cord-abstinence' whereby younger, more tech-savvy households forgo subscription T
  • h the long-term decline in cable continuing. A
  • Alex Street on 06 Dec 10
     
    long-term decline in cable continuing
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