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Alex Street

Is Netflix's Inventory Of Streaming Content Growing Fast Enough? | The Business Of Onli... - 1 views

  • Netflix confirmed it had about 12,000 titles available for streaming.
  • Netflix has about 20,000 titles for streaming,
Alex Street

What are the figures for smartphone penetration in the UK? - Quora - 1 views

  • What are the figures for smartphone penetration in the UK?
  • Enders Analysis
Nick Verkroost

UK Mobile Applications Download Revenue Reached £280m In 2010 | Mobile Orchard - 1 views

  • UK downloaded over 860 million applications in 2010
  • 105 million downloads counting for paid apps
  • Revenue reached £280 million
Alex Street

Ofcom asks Arqiva to stick price on 600MHz spectrum * The Register - 1 views

  • stick price on 600MHz
  • building an LTE network or similar would be expensive
  • would fit six new HD TV channels
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  • regulator has asked Arqiva to work out what it would charge someone to broadcast TV in the space
  • band isn't very valuable for anything else, as there's no international harmonisation
  • no economies of scale.
  • working out how much it would cost to broadcast a national TV multiplex
  • Ofcom wants to auction it off,
  • regulator can't do that until the upper part of the Digital Dividend is mapped out (if not auctioned off) and the potential value of the 600MHz band is well understood
  • provide indicative pricing in case anyone fancies launching some TV channels at 600MH
Alex Street

What is Video Streaming? | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - 1 views

  • 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.
Alex Street

UK pay-TV revenues reaching their peak - 1 views

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

VoD Revenue Forecast | Media'ZBiz! - 1 views

  • cable subscriber will spend more in VoD than an IPTV subscriber
  • VoD will generate $330 million a year (in the UK) in ‘direct revenue’ by 2013 (source: PaidContent:UK quoting Claire Ender
Alex Street

New iPad packs IC design wins - 1 views

  • Qualcomm Inc.'s two chip solution: the RTR8600 multiband, multimode RF transceiver for 3G and 4G and the MDM9600 3G and 4G capable wireless modem.
Alex Street

Videonet | Search Results - 1 views

  • How to win at multi-screen TV
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      PAY TV AS CURRATOR OF APPS
Alex Street

YouTube's top channels rival cable audiences - 1 views

  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels
  • 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content i
  • average of 18 hours per viewer
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  • Separately, comScore says 180 million U.S. I
  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels
  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels,
Alex Street

comScore Charts YouTube's Volcanic Eruption as 2nd Leading Video Ad Property - Search E... - 1 views

  • average viewer watched 424.6 minutes online video content on Google
  • 146.1 million unique viewers
  • 1.2 billion video ads during the month.
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  • Google Sites delivered video ads for 129 minutes.
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    youtube minutage and uniques
Alex Street

Average CPM's - 1 views

  • ELEVISION :30 prime-time spot $20.54 :30 prime-time network $11.31
David Astle

GetGlue Redesigns Site to Be a Personalized Viewing Guide - 1 views

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    "GetGlue Redesigns Site to Be a Personalized Viewing Guide"
Alex Street

What equipment do I need for broadband? - 0 views

  • usual way to get broadband is via an ADSL service
  • get ADSL you will need to have your phone line upgraded (called 'line activation')
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    e usual way to get broadband is via an ADSL service
Alex Street

FT.com / Technology - Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices - 0 views

  • d Google liable for the uploading by YouTube users
  • Federal regulators in Washington have looked into the competitive implications of Google acquisitions and other business deals
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Google plans pay-per-view films - 0 views

  • global pay-per-view video service
  • international appeal of a streaming
  • on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube
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  • hell of a lot of eyeballs
  • is planning a $2bn initial public offering
  • YouTube said it had been beta-testing a film rental service since
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