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. […]
Entone, provider of Connected Home solutions, has unveiled today 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 […]
Over The Top Services have the potential to change the face of the TV industry forever. Fast broadband access straight to the viewers TV will mean new opportunities for both new entrants and existing content players, bringing ever more options to consumers. But it could also have major implications for incumbent pay-TV platforms and network […]
Showtime Networks has launched Showtime Anytime, a broadband video-streaming service that will be free to Showtime subscribers through the network’s cable, satellite and telco affiliates in the US. Showtime Anytime gives subscribers the flexibility to watch more than 400 hours of the network’s programming, hit movies and sports offerings online, whenever and wherever they’d like […]
Internet technologies have been a catalyst to turn TV into a mash-up of many kinds of content and then bring it to any screen, while TV viewing has become more fragmented according to a report from Pyramid Research. “While content owners can bypass pay-TV operators by going direct to consumers over the Internet, the operators’ […]
YouView is “not anti-competitive, it creates competition” according to Kip Meek, Chairman of the venture, who argued that it created content at three levels: device, content and platform. Meek suggested that as YouView was an early stage project, it would have been difficult for Ofcom or any competition authority to have deemed it anti-competitive at […]
Google is trying to persuade three US television networks that have blocked access to their websites from Google TV to change their minds. ABC, NBC and CBS have blocked their online shows from the new Google TV service. Fox is said to be considering joining them in throwing the off switch. The Google service has […]