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Alex Street

KT - 0 views

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  • olleh TV Now
  • d on October 27 that KT will launch a Tablet PC, “Smart Home Pad,” which will be specialized for home use, allowing people to enjoy various, convenient services in their everyday life and customized content at home.
  • transform today’s homes into smart homes
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  • Smart Home Pad is a product that has been designed for people in their 40s and 50s including homemakers, who are not accustomed to smart gadget
  • Smart Home Pad combines the tablet pad and smart home service
  • tablet pad is a model of Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wi-F
  • olleh TV Now is a service offering 11,000 VOD and 40 real-time channels
  • Smart Home Call offers high quality video phone calls at low rates where Wi-Fi service is provided.
  • Home Security senses trespassing or a break in through a sensor an
Alex Street

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.
Alex Street

Sony To Launch Social Games In Home - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Sony To Launch Social Games In Home
  • social initiative is part of Sony's plan to leverage Home as a social platform for PS3 owners. 
  • These will not be the first social or freemium games launched in Home
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  • 100 games embedded into the world including Sodium, a game that supports microtransactions
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
Rob Collier

Digital Scotland 2020: Achieving World-Class digital infrastructure: a final report to ... - 0 views

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Rural-Broadband UK infrastructure

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  • Rob Collier on 30 Jul 14
     
    "4.4 Rural coverage and take-Up With a population density almost an order of magnitude greater than Scotland's, South Korea does not provide many lessons in rural coverage. However, Australia does. Its overall density is 1/20th Scotland's with vast tracks of land populated by less than one person per ten square kilometers and in some cases per hundred square kilometers. As a result Australia has not been able to escape the urban-rural digital divide, which, as already noted, is embodied in its two-track fast broadband deployment strategy. A large 93% of the population will have access to 100 Mbps service, according to the NBN plan, while the remaining 7%--in rural and remote areas-is being promised up to 12 Mbps only.[6]NBN simply assumes that rural and remote areas do not justify FTTH and that they will be served by fixed wireless and satellite technologies. On the mobile side, on the other hand, Australia has relied on competition between its mobile operators (reduced to three after a consolidation) to extend service beyond urban areas. This has generally produced limited results. Subsidies for better coverage have been applied at the state level, however, with Western Australia being an instructive example. Specifically, the Western Australia government conducted a reverse auction tender to improve mobile coverage in selected areas, which resulted in Telstra, the main incumbent operator, securing A$39.2 million in government aid (on top of committing A$106 million of its own funds) for this purpose. Like Australia, Sweden has large unpopulated areas to serve, yet cannot rely on new-generation satellites, which do not reach these areas. Initially Sweden relied on HSPA mobile coverage but it has recently added a national coverage requirement in the context of its 4G (LTE) spectrum auction. Specifically, the Swedish regulator identified rural homes and businesses that need to be covered, requiring 75% of the indicated homes and businesses to be covered by Decemb
Alex Street

Sky Anytime+ goes from strength to strength with more content and increased reach - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 30 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Sky is extending the reach of Sky Anytime+ by making it available to all Sky+HD homes with an internet connection, across all broadband provider
  • 1.2 million Sky Broadband homes that already use the service.
David Astle

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

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shared by David Astle on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
Alex Street

List of MVNO(Mobile Virtual Network Operators) worldwide - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 21 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Alex Street on 21 Sep 10
     
    nited Kingdom(UK) BT Mobile Home GSM  T-Mobile    United Kingdom(UK) Dot-Mobile GSM  Vodafone  Student-focused ESP offering low prices and SMS and minute bundles, or "units".   United Kingdom(UK) Easy Mobile GSM  T-Mobile  ESP launched in March 2005   United Kingdom(UK) ExtremeMob GSM  Vodafone  A combination of stylish handsets, value for money tariffs and a 24/7 customer call centre will make ExtremeMob stand out in the mobile sector.   United Kingdom(UK) Fresh GSM  T-Mobile  Pre-paid MVNO venture of Carphone Warehouse and Value Telecom.  United Kingdom(UK) Intercity Mobile Communications GSM      United Kingdom(UK) Mobile World GSM  T-Mobile  Pre-paid MVNO venture of Carphone Warehouse launched in April 2005.   United Kingdom(UK) Kingston Communications GSM  O2  MVNO launched in 2000  United Kingdom(UK) One.Tel GSM  Vodafone    United Kingdom(UK) Project Telecom GSM  Vodafone  Business service provider, acquired by Vodafone in 2003  United Kingdom(UK) Rok Telecom GSM  T-Mobile    United Kingdom(UK) Sainsburys Telecom GSM  O2  Service provider, partnership with Carphone Warehouse and O2   United Kingdom(UK) Singlepoint Limited GSM  Vodafone  Service provider launched in 1997, acquired by Vodafone in 2003   United Kingdom(UK) Tesco Mobile GSM  O2  MVNO launched in September 2003   United Kingdom(UK) Toucan Mobile GSM  T-Mobile  Postpaid MVNO for Toucan, telecoms company IDT Europe's consumer telephony brand - launching later in 2005   United Kingdom(UK) Virgin Mobile GSM  T-Mobile  Famous MVNO, launched November 1999 and recently announced over 5 million customers.  United Kingdom(UK) Yes Telecom GSM  Vodafone   
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

Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 20... - 0 views

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  • Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update
  • mobile data traffic will double every year through 2014,
  • 66 percent of the world's mobile data traffic will be video by 2014.
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  • Middle East and Africa will have the strongest growth
  • United Kingdom-based O2 reported that its mobile data traffic
  • Telecom Italia
  • AT&T has re
  • Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast,
  • .6 exabytes per month by 2014, and over 2.3 of those are due to mobile video traffic.
  • 3.6 Exabytes per Month of Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
  • Video Will Account for 66 Percent of Global Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
  • Figure 3 shows the devices responsible for mobile data traffic growth.
  • Smartphones and portables will account for 91 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014
  • rimarily due to the much higher usage profile of laptops and the suitability of mobile broadband handsets
  • Laptops and Smartphones Drive Traffic Growth
  • ercentage of Install Base of Smartphones over all Mobile Handsets
  • igh-End Handsets and Laptops Can Multiply Traffic
  • Much mobile data activity takes place within the user's home. A
  • Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group
  • 45.6%
  • 36.6%
  • United Kingdom
  • Mobile Internet Time at Home, at Work and On The Move
  • Cisco IBSG Connected Life Market Watch
  • Cisco has estimated the amount of smartphone traffic that can be offloaded through dual-mode devices or femtocells
  • Traffic Offload
  • . Mobile-Only Data Users by Country, 2009-2014
  • social augmented reality
  • next five years are projected to provide unabated mobile video adoption despite the recen
  • Global Mobile Data Traffic 2009-2014
  • Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic
  • nforma Telecoms and Media, Infonetics, Cahners In-Stat, Datamonitor, Gartner, IDC, Dell'Oro, Synergy, Nielsen, comScore, and the International Telecommunications Union
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

Statistics Bureau Home Page/Chapter 8 Science and Technology/ Information and Communica... - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 20 May 11 - No Cached
  • FTTH (fiber to the home) service, using optical fiber, provides an ultra-high speed network capable of communicating faster than a DSL or cable Internet connection. As of the end of March 2009, the number of FTTH (connection) subscribers was 15.02 million,
Alex Street

TV market in Spain - 0 views

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  • 150 000 on the DTT network alone
  • market is dominated by the satellite package Digital+, which is owned by Sogecable (Prisa, Mediaset and Telefonica)
  • 12% of homes
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  • main competitor is the cable operator ONO,
  • cable operators, they reach less than 10% of homes.
  • Imagenio platform (Telefónica de España), which had more than 700 000 subscribers
  • Consejo Estatal de de Medios Audiovisuales
  • Alex Street on 27 Oct 11
     
    150 000 on the DTT network
Alex Street

UK pay-TV revenues reaching their peak - 1 views

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  • 4 million subs by
  • Fewer than 1 million homes are forecast to pay for IPTV services by 2016
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.
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