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Sasha Roupell

Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ | whathifi.com - 0 views

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    Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ 8 Mar 2012 Sky has expanded its pay-per-view movie offering for customers with Sky Anytime+. The new Sky Store replaces Sky Box Office and has over 1000 films available to watch on-demand. SD movies start at just 99p, rising to £3.99 for blockbuster new movies in HD. Sky also confirmed that Sky Anytime+ will be available to all Sky customers from Easter - a Sky Broadband subscription will no longer be required. Sky Anytime+ delivers a wide range of on-demand content for free as well as offering pay-per-view films. Sky is at pains to point out that its pay-per-view movies, via the new Sky Store if you're an Anytime+ customer, are cheaper than iTunes and Lovefilm in many instances. New releases are £3.49, library movies are £1.99 and special offers are 99p. HD films rather than SD will cost 50p more. Sky Box Office will continue as the place for non-Sky Anytime+ customers to choose from a more limited range of the latest movies on the live channels from £3.49 per title. All Sky TV customers meanwhile can rent movies on a pay-per-view basis from the new Sky Store on laptops via the Sky Go application, which already has a Sky Movies application, too.
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
David Astle

World Cup Breaks Online Viewing Records - 0 views

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    World Cup Breaks Online Viewing Records
Alex Street

Non-linear TV's long haul | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • 8% of the total in the UK in 2010 and set to rise to around 13% by 2015.
  • non-linear viewing figure in the UK in 2010 compared to nearly 10% in the US, 6% in Germany, 4% in France and around 2% in Italy and Spain
  • By 2015, these figures should rise to nearly 16% in the US, 10% in France, 8% in Germany and around 5% in Spain and Italy.
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  • Furthermore there were 14 billion views of VOD content via pay-TV services worldwide in 2010, 9 billion of which were in the US alone. 600 million long-form online videos were viewed in France and 5 billion via DVR time shifting in the UK.
David Astle

GetGlue Redesigns Site to Be a Personalized Viewing Guide - 1 views

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    "GetGlue Redesigns Site to Be a Personalized Viewing Guide"
David Astle

Most Sky TV customers now connected to On Demand - 1 views

  • On Demand viewing accounted for more than 5% of viewing in connected homes - equivalent to the third most popular linear channel in those homes.
  • In less than a year, the total number of connected Sky+HD boxes has more than doubled to 5.4 million, equivalent to 56,000 new households getting connected every week. This explosive growth means that more than 50% of Sky’s 10.6m TV customers are now connected, stretching Sky’s lead as Britain’s most popular connected TV platform.
David Astle

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

  • 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 - Google plans pay-per-view films - 0 views

  • 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

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Launches Groundbreaking 'App Editions' of Feature Fil... - 0 views

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    App Editions provide a fully-loaded, connected viewing experience that gives consumers the first five minutes of a feature film and a portion of bonus content that can include games, trivia, soundtracks and soundboards.  The entire feature film can be unlocked via an in-app purchase, which enables downloading and unlimited streaming, as well as access to the entire array of bonus content available within the App.
Alex Street

Costs mobile data - O2 - 0 views

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    What is 1MB of data? 1MB* on average is: Browsing - using the internet on your O2 mobile O2 Active 40 pages approx Mobile internet sites outside of O2 (typically 3rd party websites not controlled by O2): 2-10 full web pages (depending on graphics, images, amount of text) 10-20 mobile web pages Sending and receiving E-mail from your O2 mobile 200 emails without attachment 10 emails with simple one page attachment Satellite Navigation 15 hours of Satellite navigation traffic alert service. Please note: Using GPS Sat Nav without the traffic alert service does not incur data charges. Important information The following services when provided by a 3rd party may consume large amounts of data and maybe subject to separate charge. We recommend you take a Browsing Bolt On if you use these services regularly: Downloading video clips from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB depending on the length and quality of the clip, plus the cost of the video Note - Downloading video clips/music/games from O2 costs the price of the content only with no additional data charges. Downloading high quality music tracks from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB per track depending on the length and quality of the track, plus the cost of the track Downloading games from 3rd party: typically 300KB, plus the cost of the game We recommend that you avoid the following on your mobile: Using VOIP** uses 1 MB of data every 3-4 minutes. Downloading full-length movies as this may use in excess of 1,000MB. Using video/ audio streaming devices (e.g. 'Sling box'), which connect your mobile device to your TV, also consume large amounts of data. Watching 15 minutes of TV on your mobile using these devices uses around 25MB. * These figures are based on typical usage. Actual data usage will depend on the content of web pages viewed and the length of emails sent/received. ** Typical VOIP usage is around 5KB per second but will depend on a number of variables including codec and voice sample t
Alex Street

TV on demand | YouGov Labs - 0 views

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