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Alex Street

A new smart TV or a set-top box? « KoreaDotCom - 0 views

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korea smarttv connectedtv android

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  • Daum Cloud, which provides 50 gigabytes of storage for free and makes it possible for users to view photos and videos from the storage on TV – a similar mechanism
  • Kim Jee-hyun, director of Daum’s strategy division, painted a picture of bright horizons.
  • Samsung’s Bada smartphone OS,
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  • Android and iOS be the only options
  • Daum TV+, a smart set-top box
  • Daum set-top box, it costs less than 600,000 won for you to have a smart TV set
  • KT, SK Telecom and LG U+ – which operate IPTV are already bracing to cash in on the latest smart TV boom with their own set-top boxes.
  • cable service operators, C&M
  • mart set-top box” running on Android
  • LG CNS, an IT convergence arm of LG
  • KT is set to unveil its self-developed Android-powered set-top box in July at the earlies
  • 37 percent of all TVs sold in Korea this year will be smart TVs, and the figure is expected to climb.
David Astle

US TV shipments set to fall in 2012 for first time ever | Electronista - 0 views

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US Television TV Shipments 2011 2012

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  • David Astle on 15 Nov 12
     
    "US TV shipments set to fall in 2012 for first time ever"
Alex Street

Hama Time!: Set-top Box Slaps Android On TV | TechnoBuffalo - 0 views

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android korea

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Alex Street

Maravedis: South Korean trio set aggressive LTE subscriber targets - FierceBroadbandWir... - 0 views

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korea mobiletv LTE

shared by Alex Street on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • average monthly data usage of 900Mbyte~1000Mbyte per subscribe
  • 38 million LTE subscribers by the end of 2014
  • 0% of South Korean citizens covered under its LTE network by April 2012
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  • KT expects data traffic to further explode going forward and is currently offloading the data traffic by utilizing all of its network, including WiBro, Wi-Fi and 3G network.
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

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  • 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

LG CNS Successfully Commercializes the First Smart Set Top Box in Korea - LG CNS News - 0 views

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android korea

shared by Alex Street on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • optimized to the demands of the cable broadcasting companies.
  • LG CNS h
  • n Android OS-based product that allows cable
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  • supports the ‘TV App Store’
  • current number of subscribers to domestic cable broadcasting is estimated at 15 million
Rob Collier

BBC News - Freeview to launch connected TV service - 0 views

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Connected TV

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  • Rob Collier on 23 Jun 14
     
    "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,"
Alex Street

info.sky.de | Publications | Financial Reports - 0 views

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HD germanTV skydeutschland

shared by Alex Street on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Press release for the 2 Quarter 2010 to release
  • Alex Street on 27 Sep 10
     
    Page 3 of report - 18m HD sets in Germany and Austria 
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

Google TV to launch this year | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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google googletv canvas advertising

shared by Alex Street on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • global TV advertising market
  • oogle TV service,
  • turised version of his Apple TV
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  • full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers
  • Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies:
  • HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitec
  • small apps
  • Adobe's Flash
  • t how easy it will be to integrate content
  • QWERTY keyboards" b
  • t a distance, with one hand, in the dark.
Alex Street

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

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iplayer bbc iplayer3.0 web-TV webimmersion usage usagedata anthonyrose

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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

PS3 HDMI resolution and refresh rate | AVForums.com - UK Online - 0 views

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RTS ps3 refreshrate

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    he only time it will switch to 50Hz is when playing upscaled SD DVD (Blu-ray is at either 60Hz (59.94 to be precise) or 1080p24 (23.976Hz)) or if you set the XMB to 576p.
Rob Collier

Sky AdSmart launch backed by some of the biggest brands in Britain - 1 views

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UK sky AdSmart Youview BSKYB

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  • Rob Collier on 05 Aug 14
     
    "Sky AdSmart technology works by sending a library of adverts via satellite to the Sky+HD set-top box. It then selects the adverts which best match a household's profile and inserts them into a live ad break. The line-up of adverts is based on a customer's postcode alongside publically available demographic information from third-party providers including the data services company Experian."
Alex Street

BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer launches on Xbox LIVE - 0 views

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iplayer xbox360

shared by Alex Street on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • 015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices
  • irgin Media plus other services capable of delivering BBC iPlayer direct to TVs, including IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, connected “Smart TVs” and connected set-top boxes, such as Freeview HD, Freesat HD, games consoles and some Blu-Ray players.
  • Alex Street on 08 May 12
     
    BBC projects that by 2015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices.
Alex Street

Ovum Research Store - Consumer Insights: Exploring the TV Apps Opportunity - 0 views

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tvapps appli

shared by Alex Street on 21 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • new use-cases
  • add value for consumers by augmenting and enhancing the TV user experience
  • overview of consumers' online activities by connected device type
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  • long-form video-consumption on non-traditional viewing devices
  • elements of the mobile app store model can be effectively adapted for the implementation of TV apps.
  • opportunity to exploit TV apps as a marketing and distribution channel
  • grouping of TV apps into distinct categories
  • ew modes of content delivery and consumption.
  • marketing, distributing, and accessing online content or services has been instrumental in driving changes in consumer behaviour.
  • direct monetization potential
  • demand for multiscreen access to pay-TV services
  • online activity today is TV-related or video-centric
  • kind of TV apps might consumers be prepared to pay?
  • use cases for apps delivered only to TV set
  • mobile apps environment translate
  • web-based services and applications are consumers
Alex Street

Google's battle for wireless spectrum - CNET News - 0 views

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google WiFi spectrum whitespace

shared by Alex Street on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • 700MHz spectrum auction represents the last big chance that the United States has to create an opportunity for meaningful change in access to the Internet for the broadest set of people possible
Stephe Taylor

Siemens outlines case for 'Operator as an app' | Videonet - 0 views

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shared by Stephe Taylor on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • ‘Operator as an app’
  • Over-The-Top Swipe
  • ability to ‘swipe’ content from one screen to another
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  • Siemens can support over 100 client devices today, including more than 20 tablets and 10 connected TV sets
Alex Street

Virgin TiVo is boosting the social screen | Videonet - 0 views

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virgin tivo VOD

shared by Alex Street on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • March 7, 2012 b
  • 500,000 TiVo customers
  • completely changed how these homes discover content.
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  • someone would use a satellite set-top box for 50% of the time.”
  • they use ‘My Shows’ half of the time
  • a took an OTT service
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