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Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Television goes smart in dramatic makeover - 0 views

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  • Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September
  • smart TV
  • Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas
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  • ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
  • “dumb” monitors
  • Retailers are looking to increase their margins
  • Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
  • Netflix,
  • Technology companies aim to serve all sides
  • network equipment makers
  • fighting among themselves over standards.
  • Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
  • Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
  • Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
  • Google’s developer conference
  • Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
  • experimentation.
  • competing services on the same device
  • etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
  • , Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
  • Google TV as a unifying solution
  • app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
  • Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
  • Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
  • “Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
  • “Different markets around the world have different requirements,
  • problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
  • TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
Alex Street

Miso Sync: A Second Screen Experiment Using Android & Boxee [EXCLUSIVE] - 0 views

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miso Telefonica socialmedia getglue

shared by Alex Street on 29 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Alex Street on 29 Jun 11
     
    "You turn on the TV, your phone is on stand by, and immediately you get a push notification that says 'You're watching American Idol. Want to share this with your friends?' … then 10 minutes in, a performance completes and we deliver … a push notification: 'What do you think of Haley's performance?'"
Alex Street

US pay-TV suffers record subscriber drop | Broadband TV News - 0 views

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verizon timewarner comcast AT&T USTV subscribers marketshare

shared by Alex Street on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Verizon’s FiOS service continue to eat into the video business, growing their share from 4.3% in Q2 2009 to 6% in Q2 2010.
  • Cable suffered its worst quarterly video loss to date, loosing 711,000 subscribers,
  • Cable MSO’s share of combined video subscribers dropped to 61%, against 63.6% in the Q2 2009.
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  • ow housing formation and a high unemployment rate contributed to subscriber declines in the second quarte
  • Alex Street on 07 Oct 10
     
    US market encountered its worst ever second quarter performance
Alex Street

Some iPlayer performance tips | Dan Sumption's Life Less Literary - 0 views

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iplayer davidastle bandwidth benchmark

shared by Alex Street on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • e two actually use different video files (encoded at 1500kbps and 800kbps)
  • iPlayer requires lot of decoding power,
  • Alex Street on 18 Nov 10
     
    The two actually use different video files (encoded at 1500kbps and 800kbps)
Nick Verkroost

iSuppli Tears Down Slingbox: Set-top box carries $83.60 bill-of-materials cost - Mobile... - 0 views

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DCT Sling set top box stb BOM bill of materials

shared by Nick Verkroost on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Sling Media Inc. is betting it's worth $249, the retail price for its Slingbox device. And for each Slingbox sold, Sling Media is investing $83.60 in combined Bill of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing costs
  • A $22 Texas Instruments Inc. TMS320DM641GNZ digital signal processor that performs video/imaging functions. A $7 Philips SAA7173 analog TV video/stereo decoder. A $6 Philips FQ1238 front-end module for the tuner. A $6 Micron Technology Inc. MT48LC4M32B2TG7 128Mbit SDRAM. A $4 Advanced Micro Devices Inc./Spansion S29JL064H90TAI00 64Mbit NOR flash memory.
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - TV watchers spoilt for choice by internet services - 0 views

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roku OTT USTV netflix

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Alex Street

Mobile Sales Fall While Smartphone Sales Rise, says Informa | - 0 views

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mobile mobiletrends brainstorm

shared by Alex Street on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • How will device vendors differentiate themselves? What is User Experience? What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software? How to succeed in an Open Source world How to make money with Open Source The challenges and risks of Open Source What are the major trends in mobile handset OS? Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013? What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean? What is the future for proprietary OS? What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
  • n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.
  • Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.
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  • Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
  • open source components and approaches
Alex Street

Madden 11 Boosts to Be Purchasable | GoMadden - 0 views

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EA micropayments ingamestransactions

shared by Alex Street on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • boosts for Madden 11′s online co-op will not simply be earnable through quality performance, but they will also be purchasable t
  • Earned and Purchased Boost will have an affect in ALL Online Team Play game
Alex Street

BlackArrow - Decision Suite - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • esigned to run in any cable headend or data center,
  • BlackArrow Ad Decision Service (ADS)
  • CPM, campaign performance, frequency capping and metering among others to maximize yield while managing campaign commitments
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  • Real-time placement
  • Ad Decision Service
  • algorithms optimize
  • SCTE 130-3 compliant
  • placement opportunity decision engine
  • program attributes, daypart, geography
  • addressability criteria
  • BlackArrow’s Request Decoration Services enhance addressability
  • ntegration of content and subscriber data into the ad decisioning process
  • internal or third-party data sources
  • Optional local caching of data
  • dynamic ad delivery across any on-demand platform
Alex Street

Designing For TV - Google TV - Google Code - 0 views

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google googletv applicationdevelopment

shared by Alex Street on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • muted colors
  • fonts and buttons were increased
  • learly highlighted
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  • D-pad up/down/left/right
  • l padding
  • traditional web page harder to read, cluttered, and more difficult to perform basic task
  • When designing a web page for TV, the viewable area should display less information overall
  • all content "above the fold"
  • horizontal real estate
  • navigation is better handled from the side
  • Vertical scrolling, while fundamental on a desktop browser, may not be as appealing on the TV UI
  • better approach is to make use of horizontal layouts and visual transitions
  • Elements on the page should have large selection surfaces for mouse users.
  • Expanding the surface
Alex Street

NXP and Virage Logic Strategic Alliance Accelerates NXP's Move to High Performance Mixe... - 0 views

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DCT semiconductors partnership virage nxp

shared by Alex Street on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • strategic alliance underscores the semiconductor industry’s continuing trend for companies to focus on their core competencies while outsourcing non-differentiating elements of their business.
  • agreement calls for the transfer of a part of NXP’s advanced CMOS intellectual property rights and certain engineering talent and equipment to Virage Lo
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