A forecast from MRG projects that global growth of OTT video services will exceed $1 billion in 2010 and US$20 billion in 2014, based on over 40 OTT Service Operators and Device Vendors profiled. “This is the most complete available analysis of connected OTT smart devices offering both live and on-demand video services,” says Mike […]
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) set-top box shipments surpassed MPEG-2-only set-top box shipments for the first time in 2010, with about 53 per cent of MPEG-4 shipments worldwide, suggests ABI Research. Despite the support for advanced encoding, however, pay-TV operators worldwide have been slow to support interactive features on set-top boxes. The research firm notes that historically, […]
Turner Broadcasting has released research, conducted with Magna Global, which the company says indicates a willingness by online video viewers to watch higher ad loads. Online streams of TV shows could support as many ads as broadcast television shows, Turner says. The test had Turner assigning visitors to its TNT and TBS websites. The first […]
Adam Crozier has said that the broadcaster must invest in content and technology to capitalise on the “second digital switchover” of web and TV convergence. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference the ITV CEO said that the emergence of services such as Google TV and Apple TV was already causing problems for traditional digital TV […]
US Dish Network has launched a ‘true TV Everywhere’ offering enabling Dish Network subscribers to watch live and recorded television programmes on compatible smartphones, tablets and laptops. Dish Network subscribers can access these features when they download and use the Dish Remote Access application via their broadband-connected, Sling-enabled receiver. Dish Network has introduced Sling Adapter, […]
Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks has called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video […]
Minerva Networks, supplier of IPTV infrastructure software which powers more than 200 deployments worldwide, has unveiled a new platform for the delivery of blended Television and OTT video services to broadband subscribers on multiple screens. The new xTVFusion platform addresses the needs of Cable, Satellite and Telecom operators as well as ISPs, CLECs and Broadcasters […]
Results conferences have given media conglomerate chiefs to respond to analyst fears that OTT services will see their subscription bases decline because of cord cutting. Time Warner did allow that it predicted subscribers to HBO will fall by about 1.5 million by the end of 2010, but stressed that they did not believe the reason […]
Entone, provider of Connected Home solutions, has unveiled FusionTV, a managed service that provides telco operators with the ability to offer over the top (OTT) content blended with linear HDTV programming. With this offering, subscribers get the best of both worlds – the timeliness and quality of live television and the flexibility of online media. […]