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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
Rob Collier

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

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    "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

Top 10 Music Artist iPhone Apps - AOL Music Blog - 0 views

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    natical bunch, and with 'Haus of Gaga' they can keep up with her every move. From early concert announcements, tour dates and videos, be the first to know with this app.
Alex Street

VOD gaining traction in North America, Europe | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • tudy forecasts that in 2016, North America will continue to lead the market with 33.1% share of world VOD revenues, followed by Western Europe with 30.5% share, and Asia Pacific with 25.7% share. The five largest country markets, in terms of VOD revenues in 2016, consist of the US, Japan, Canada, the UK, and South Korea, with the US accounting for over a quarter of the market.
Alex Street

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

  • 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

Deutsche Telecom plots partnership with Harbinger | Telecoms Europe - 0 views

  • Deutsche Telekom is mulling a partnership with US hedge fund Harbinger Capital
  • T-Mobile USA has been losing profit as it struggles to keep up with soaring demand for mobile data services. The company was two years behind its major competitors with a 3G network. But its 3G network now covers 205 million people and boasts industry-leading speeds.
  • Harbinger has not yet secured funding for the project, which aims to offer services to 9 million users at launch and 145 million in all major market by 2013.
Alex Street

FT.com / Management - Apple takes a second bite at TV - 0 views

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  • 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

How Björk's App Album Was Made: Mixing for iPad, Visualizing Music as Tunnels... - 0 views

  • I haven’t had this experience in 20 years. Before CDs came out, I’d buy an album and hold the 12-inch cover in my hand, sitting cross-legged on the floor while I listened to the music, read the liner notes, and looked at the pictures.” People used to have this very tactile, multimedia experience when they bought an album. But with the digitization of music, we’ve lost that special moment. You can think of the app as, finally, that chance to unwrap the box and have a personal, intimate experience again with music. It might be the case that people spend a lot of time with the app when it first comes out [as they did with album covers] and then perhaps they’ll move on to purely enjoying the music after that
Alex Street

DVD Intelligence - FEATURE: Physical media are hanging on for dear life - 0 views

  • Amazon.com’s deep discounting
  • deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,
  • Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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  • one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
  • Amoeba Musi
  • huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
  • depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
  • HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
  • If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
  • the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
  • £145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
  • 1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
  • Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
  • Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
  • ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
  • consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
  • enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
  • Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
  • The Death of Bunny Munro, w
  • transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
  • mass media to develop media franchises
  • type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
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

iPhone 4S Carries BOM of $188, IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Reveals - IHS iS... - 0 views

  • Qualcomm obviously is a big winner in the 4S, with company now taking sole ownership of the baseband processor position with its MDM6610 device
  • Phone 4 baseband design win with Intel.
  • MDM6610 baseband processor
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  • Apple’s already highly-integrated design
  • Avago part unique is its capability to support both 2G and 3G cellular technologies
  • Avago’s ACPM-7181 is a unique and valuable part in the iPhone 4S wir
  • hree separate components in the HSPA iPhone 4 model: the two Skyworks Solutions Inc. PAMs and one TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. PAM.
  • special converged approach that gives Apple a real technology lead o
  • educing the complexity of the radio frequency/power amplifier (RF/PA) s
  • Avago presently is ranked as a second-tier supplier well behind leading power amplifier suppliers such as Skyworks, RFMD and TriQuint
  • device’s status as a world phone has resulted in fascinating design and component change
  • Avago that helps give the iPhone 4S its unique capability to be used in multiple wireless systems globall
Alex Street

Rockstar Games Social Club About - 0 views

  • Social Club is a member’s only website destination
  • Simply register a membership account to link your game data,
  • As soon as you’ve purchased and played
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  • gged in to www.rockstargames.com/socialclub
  • Social Club account linked with your PLAYSTATION®Network Sign-In ID, Xbox LIVE™
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    launched with the console releases of Grand Theft Auto IV
Alex Street

The Truth about Mobile Application Stores - 0 views

  • iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace
  • size, store growth, the most popular applications
  • Free Vs. Paid Apps
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  • which application stores have the highest percentage of free apps
  • Android Market was the winner here. In
  • Google attracts the sort of developers that enjoy giving away their works and the open nature of the application- approval process (that is, no review board middleman exists between app creation and public release)
  • ' dissatisfaction with Google Checkout - paid Android apps are required to implement this payment method for purchase
  • U.S. market only
  • okia has the most paid (85% paid)
  • prices for the paid applications
  • RIM and Microsoft were more than twice as high
  • didn't necessarily have to do with the different types of applications
  • Android is now the second-largest application store
  • Windows has 693.
  • Apple is also the fastest growing store with a shocking 13,865 new applications added per mont
  • popularity of applications by category
  • over 1245" Windows Mobile
  • surprising was the popularity of games on Blackberry, the platform often used more by enterprise
  • 9% popularity to only 18% for utilities.
  • absence of any form of review process has led to new forms of store flooding and other variety of spams in the form of applications that are just gateways to websites
Alex Street

EA pins future on digital subscriptions, microtransactions, News from GamePro - 0 views

  • extend the life of "packaged goods" l
  • Madden NFL 10, you can manage your teams on your iPhone with a companion App.
  • category [where EA competes with Nike and Adidas.]" Mo
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  • EA might not be able to implement a subscription- or microtransaction-based service the way it plans to with the Madden franchise on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Alex Street

BrightCove Partners with LG on Content for Smart TVs | WebProNews - 0 views

  • Connected TVs are continuing to grow in popularity, with some analysts estimating over 100 million units will be shipped by 2012
  • LG and Brightcove opens up a new, global distribution channel
  • xpand the reach of some of the world’s most highly sought after online video
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  • Young-jae Seo, Vp of LG Electronics' LCD TV Smart TV Team
Alex Street

Walmart Buys Online Video Service Vudu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD - 0 views

  • skepticism about reported sales prices
  • my source tells me this will be a cash deal
  • Vudu is an also-ran in the online movie business,
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  • Vudu has licensing deals with all the big movie studios as well
  • everage with Hollywood than Apple, Netflix or Amazon
  • VUDU has licensing agreements with almost every major movie studio and dozens of independent and international distributors to offer approximately 16,000 movies, including the largest 1080p library of video on-demand movies available anywhere.
Alex Street

Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015  [Visual N... - 0 views

  • number of devices connected to IP networks will be twice as high as the global population in 2015.
  • In 2010, only 3 percent of Internet traffic originated with non-PC devices, but by 2015 the non-PC share of Internet traffic will grow to 15 percent.
  • TVs, tablets, smartphones, and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of 101 percent, 216 percent, 144 percent, and 258 percent, respectively
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  • by 2012 Internet video will account for over 50 percent of consumer Internet traffic
  • Every second, 1 million minutes of video content will cross the network in 2015
  • Internet video to TV
  • Step 1: Number of Users
  • users for each video subsegment
  • 37 percent of Internet video users watch long-form content
  • average viewing time is longer than 5 minutes in duratio
  • Adoption
  • Minutes of Use
  • For each application subsegment, minutes of use (MOU) are estimated
  • he next step is to apply kilobytes (KB) per minute
  • tep 4. Bitrates
  • 7 percent annual compression gain is applied to the bitrate.
  • final step is to compare the results of the forecast with actual broadband traffic data from service providers.
  • P Traffic, 2010-2015
  • Fixed Internet
  • 14,955
  • 59,354
  • Fixed
  • 12,355 1
  • Internet video
  • 4,672
  • 33,620
  • 53,282
  • Consumer Internet Video Communications, 2010-2015
  • Mobile 4 9 17 31 52 97 90%
  • Internet Video With the exception of the Internet video to TV subcatego
Alex Street

Videonet - News and Analysis - Broadcasters must dominate synchronized companion apps - 0 views

  • synchronise content around a programme so that what appears on the tablet or smartphone
  • never.no interactivity suite is directly coupled with the broadcast playout systems and ‘listens’ to events in the live broadcast and fires off triggers to a Content Delivery Network to determine what functionality the second screen will show at any time
  • ompanion devices, because they are IP-based and are personal by nature, introduce the interactivity and addressability that broadcasters cannot get via the television alone.
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  • hese could also be synchronised in real-time so that the third-party can sell advertising inventory that coincides with the advertising breaks during the show or live event.
  • reater engagement, greater understanding of the audience and increased advertising potential
  • IBC: Impact of second screen apps proven with TV 2 Tour de France
  • Never.no provided the Synchronized Companion App Framework, which is part of the company’s Interactivity Suite (IS), a framework for connecting fragmented media technologies like TV, mobile and socia
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