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

  • 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

informitv - Views on YouView from Decipher - 0 views

  • 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

TV market in Austria - 0 views

  • ORF1 and ORF2, achieved a combined average market share of 40.9
  • 2008 Communications Report published by the regulatory authority, KommAustria,
  • 5% of households rely on DT
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  • atellite is the most important mode of television reception in Austria, followed by cable
  • Premiere Österreich
  • Sky”,
  • many small cable operators in Austria
  • C. In March 2009, UPC Telekabel, had a total of 555,000 subscribers.
  • 75 000 subscribers in May 2009
  • TV platform AONtv (Aon Digital) i
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Alex Street

CNBC's Fast Money : Third of Young Netflix Users Cut Cable - CNBC - 0 views

  • 37 percent of Netflix subscribers aged 25 to 34 substitute Netflix for pay television
  • 30 percent of users between 18 and 24 are using Netflix’s streaming service instead of cable or satellite
  • Netflix story just works,” s
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  • Big Media has a small window of opportunity to control its own destiny,
  • major U.S. entertainment conglomerates control approximately 70 percent of all TV viewing through its
Alex Street

A2BTV - Your TV: Anywhere, Anytime! - 0 views

  • combination of the latest Slingbox™ technology and carrier-class hosting solution
  • high quality cable television
  • We will sign you up for your own cable TV account and install a real cable TV box in our facility for you. We also install your very own Slingbox video encoding hardware so you can access your TV online
Alex Street

IPTV Forums - NEW YORK CITY Slingbox Rental service, Great Quality, Service & Price :) - 0 views

  • Wondering if anyone wants to rent a slingbox hooked up to New York City television (
  • closest slingbox provider in the US you can get, (I
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    ve High Speed upload (2-3MB) and can easily sling around the World
Alex Street

FREEVIEW HD TV | FREEVIEW HDTV | FREEVIEW HD BOXES | FREEVIEW HD CHANNELS | FREEVIEW HD... - 0 views

  • CellMetric, Cisco, Digital TV Labs, Humax, NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, ProTelevision Technologies, Screen Service, SIDSA, Sony, ST Microelectronics an
Alex Street

13% of Americans Likely to 'Cord Cut' from Pay Television in the Next Year - 0 views

  • Thirteen percent of current pay TV subscribers in the US say they are "somewhat" or "very" likely to cancel their current subscription in the next twelve months—and not sign up with another provide
Alex Street

Digital Consumer » Blog Archive » GoogleTV: "You Get the Idea" - 0 views

  • Cord cutting is fast becoming a reality
  • cord cutters” exceeding 10% of US television households
  • GoogleTV talking points bill the platform as “complementary”
Alex Street

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

  • 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

Sky AdSmart "a success" - 0 views

  • Mediacom's forecast, 35% of all UK media will be ad servable by 2013,
  • Dr David Lewis from Mindlab International, based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, found that hybrid TV, which combines internet functionality with broadcast television, increases ad recall by 300%.
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    Mediacom's forecast, 35% of all UK m
Alex Street

ITV plc Interims Results & Transformation Plan - 0 views

  • ITV has not faced up to the challenges presented by the rise of internet-based platforms
  • continuing growth of pay TV and subscription services and the globalisation of content.
  • Re-shaping the economics of ITV
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  • half of ITV’s revenue base will be derived from non-television advertising sources
  • Transformation Plan
  • ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD pay channels
  • ITV1 +1
  • Drive new revenue streams
  • international content business
  • Maximise audience and revenue share
  • new lean, creatively dynami
  • investment fund of £75 million, excluding the ITV1 NPB, has been allocated for operating investments online, in content and in our digital channels
  • ITV1’s share of commercial impacts was down 4%
  • 2009: down 7%)
  • ITV's online revenues were up 20% to £12 million
  • online business remains subscale given the size of the online video market.
  • V Studios EBITA was up 8% at £43 million
  • Net debt at 30 June 2010 is significantly lower
David Astle

Toshiba Cevo TV face recognition tech explained | News | TechRadar UK - 0 views

  • This is because Toshiba's latest WL and YL series have cameras built-in w
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    Toshiba Cevo TV face recognition tech explained
Nick Verkroost

A detailed look into UK F1 television ratings - The AUTOSPORT Bulletin Board - 0 views

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  • Race - 3.50m
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Alex Street

Videonet - News and Analysis - Broadcasters must dominate synchronized companion apps - 0 views

  • synchronise content around a programme so that what appears on the tablet or smartphone
  • never.no interactivity suite is directly coupled with the broadcast playout systems and ‘listens’ to events in the live broadcast and fires off triggers to a Content Delivery Network to determine what functionality the second screen will show at any time
  • ompanion devices, because they are IP-based and are personal by nature, introduce the interactivity and addressability that broadcasters cannot get via the television alone.
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  • hese could also be synchronised in real-time so that the third-party can sell advertising inventory that coincides with the advertising breaks during the show or live event.
  • reater engagement, greater understanding of the audience and increased advertising potential
  • IBC: Impact of second screen apps proven with TV 2 Tour de France
  • Never.no provided the Synchronized Companion App Framework, which is part of the company’s Interactivity Suite (IS), a framework for connecting fragmented media technologies like TV, mobile and socia
Alex Street

Television and social integration: What exactly do consumers want? - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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