"ut the price of stand-alone YouView boxes has remained relatively high. Of the 1 million YouView set-top boxes installed in the UK, only around 30,000 were bought unsubsidised on the high street,"
quandary of trading physical dollars for digital dimes
negatively to TheTimes.co.uk’s paywall: “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there
counter print circulation decline, publishers have added 20 percent more pages in the last decade, allowing the quality dailies to drive up cover prices by 112 percent
inflating the paper will no longer work: deflation is now the agenda,
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
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.
irst, it’s great to see that the internet is capable of such a high amount of live concurrent users of streaming media. The internet remains a great way of reaching at-work listeners: where it’s hard to smuggle in a radio, and reception conditions are far from ideal.
However, acros all platforms (including FM/AM), the total ‘live concurrent users’ for radio peaks at 17.6 million (between 08:00 and 08:30, weekday mornings, according to RAJAR q4/2008).
UK internet broadcasting has hit a new record –
Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se
iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers
online retail to exceed £37 billion by 2014, a rise of 61% from 2010.
high street will become less about shopping and more about the experience
destination rather than a just a shop
next step will be the use of mobile phones as part of the shopping experience. Soon, consumers won’t think about hitting the high street without their smartphone
ow we pay, locate products and find the best deals
customers interact in store. For instance, customers can ‘check in’
Zynga tells us it makes 90% of its revenues from gamers putting their own money into the system to buy virtual goods
only 10% of its revenues come from "offers" marketing, where sponsors agree to buy virtual goods for gamers, so long as those gamers agree to try a product
ynga will reportedly reach $200 million to $250 million revenues this year
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,
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