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Netflix Says Customers Keep Cable, Aren't Cord Cutting | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllT... - 0 views

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  • We still see no evidence that our subscribers cut cords at a greater rate than the population.”
  • least one recent survey, whi
  • Cable companies like Comcast insist that they don’t see evidence of it. But Ivan Seidenberg, who runs cable competitor Verizon, says it’s inevitable.
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  • total multi-channel video subscribers is continuing to grow in the US.
  • we haven’t seen any evidence of tha
  • t: In the past year, his service has added 5.8 million subscribers
Alex Street

Recieving American TV broadcasts here in the UK - Broadcasting - Digital Spy Forums - 0 views

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USTV slingbox proxy VPN

shared by Alex Street on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A2BTV monthly for the data up-link and to host my Slingbox, and I pay Direct TV for the subscription package I have chosen
  • 2BTV give a guaranteed 2mb uplink for the money I am paying them
  • ot a US Skypeout number and a US shipping address from a mailbox company,
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  • g on to the Direct Tv website with my account number and view bills
  • my own broadband is the limiting factor at the moment, certainly not their speed.
  • Direct TV itself is a good price
  • Fliptube.net they provide 250 channels from Time Warner Cable. T
Alex Street

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

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USTV slingbox proxy VPN

shared by Alex Street on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • set-up charge of US$499 in
  • Ongoing total monthly fees are $169 per month
Alex Street

Spotlight on Virtual Goods | Work at Play - Digital Agency - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • s handy presentation gives som
  • By 2013, it’s thought the global market* for virtual goods will reach $6bn (source)
  • Alex Street on 02 Nov 10
     
    n 2010 it's estimated that (in the US alone) $1.6bn will be spend on virtual goods
Alex Street

Inside Virtual Goods - Tracking the US Virtual Goods Market 2010 - 2011 - 0 views

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    Inside Virtual Goods
Alex Street

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shared by Alex Street on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • NETGEAR Wireless Mobile Broadband Router uses the latest FLASH-OFDM® technology from Qualcomm
  • LASH-OFDM® is Qualcomm Flarion Technologies’ spread-spectrum technology that uses OFDM primarily as a wireless access method.
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
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    long-term decline in cable continuing
Alex Street

ESPN, using Nielsen data, says cord-cutting is a 'very minor' nuisance - FierceOnlineVideo - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • at cord cutting is really just cord swapping: cable subscribers switching to IPTV or satellite offerings.
  • nly one-tenth of 1 percent of viewers were actually cutting the cord.
Alex Street

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

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  • 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

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
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    ''CELL SITES''
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Connected Devices: How We Use Tablets in the U.S. | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

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O2 mobile smartphones tablets usage

shared by Alex Street on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • half of all tablet owners reported being the only ones in their household using their particular tablet, while 43 percent said they shared the tablet with others
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