BSkyB is investing in a highly sophisticated Network Convergence System (NCS) from Cisco. While it will take 18 months or so to fully install, the intention is to be ready for a slew of ‘next generation’ services that could include ‘machine to machine’ and Internet of Everything applications. Cisco says its NCS is the industry’s […]
Netflix chief Reed Hastings has again promised a 4K download service, but admits that consumers with less than 15Mb/s service might struggle to stream material. “It’s not too bad,” he told a Danish journalist at the recent Copenhagen Future of TV Conference. “If you’ve got a 50-megabit connection you’ll be fine.” Hastings did not specify a […]
A week after its success in garnering two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for its series House of Cards, online entertainment service Netflix has marked another first for non-linear programming, with the political thriller being awarded the Best Director of a Drama Series Emmy after David Fincher won the award, edging out directors from Boardwalk […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel, which launched its Foxtel Play OTT service to connected device mid-summer, is further strengthening its armoury against existing and potential subscription TV sector players by revealing details of a video-on-demand platform offering extensive movie content over the Internet. The new – dubbed ‘Presto’ – is a pre-emptive strike against mooted similar […]
OTT does not offer a realistic alternative to established pay TV offerings and is unlikely to do so for some time, according to Brian Sullivan, CEO of Sky Deutschland. Speaking on the CEO panel at the CTAM Europe EuroSummit in Barcelona, Sullivan said that Sky had embraced OTT as a distribution mechanism, which had attracted […]
Research from Nielsen estimates that 38 per cent of Americans now “use or subscribe to” Netflix – a significant increase on the 2012 figure of 31 per cent. The findings from the US research and ratings firm also reveal that 18 per cent of Americans use Hulu, up 6 per cent on last year, with […]
New Zealanders are spending more time than ever on the Internet, but traditional media still plays an important role in their lives, according to findings in a Digital Universe report from Roy Morgan Research. In fact TV, radio and print still account for 71.4 per cent of the time Kiwis spend with media per day. […]
New streaming devices and services make it easy for consumers to watch as much as they want whenever they want. According to Nielsen’s 2013 OTT Video Analysis, viewers are streaming video at a breakneck pace -demonstrating incredible binge appetites for programming available anytime and virtually anywhere on services such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime. […]
The number of consumers ‘cutting the cord’ from cable TV for Internet video remains low and live programming is still a huge viewer draw, according to a new annual survey of consumer viewing habits from Altman Vilandrie & Company. However, cable’s ‘TV Everywhere’ initiatives to bring content to mobile devices, have low awareness, and cable […]
According to Parks Associates research, over 70 per cent of pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe are able to receive a TV Everywhere service from their current pay-TV provider. The firm estimates that by 2017, over 55 per cent of broadband households in Western Europe will have a smart TV, creating even greater demand for online […]