Archive for the ‘Revenue security’ Category

Q&A with Videonet’s John Moulding on the Whole Home Video Debate, Part 2 of 2

Part II of our interview with Editor John Moulding who recently completed the “Supporting the ‘any screen, anywhere’ video consumer,” report now available on Videonet. We tackle the drivers behind whole home video, current definitions of “cloud-based TV” and the technical challenges that operators still need to overcome to meet consumers’ expectations.

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Implications of Project Canvas Selection of Marlin as DRM Standard

Project Canvas Selects Marlin as DRM Standard. Even in this new video delivery age, a strong core security platform provides the essential support for revenue generating services and complements the fundamental free-to-air and catch-up services central to the Canvas vision.

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Q&A with Videonet’s John Moulding on the Whole Home Video Debate, Part 1 of 2

Videonet’s latest industry report, “Supporting the ‘any screen, anywhere’ video consumer,” provides an in-depth exploration of current whole home video approaches available as they are developing. One choice is to to deploy a powerful media gateway that repurposes content for various consumption models in the home network. Another option being aggressively promoted is to deliver traditional digital TV services via the ‘cloud,’ or a network-centric approach, in parallel with a variety of over-the-top services that have the right format, resolution and DRM to match the devices being used.

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Consumer Subsidized TV: The Role of More Open Standards

A key component to any digital TV or video delivery standard are is the ability to generate revenue. Creating the right experience that consumers are willing to pay for will most certainly generate continued innovation.

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Can Traditional TV Operators Embrace OTT Video as a Service?

Progressive digital TV operators may have to embrace novel technologies that have been designed to effectively scale and solve IP video issues and apply them over their delivery networks. By integrating OTT and adaptive rate streaming technology with pay-TV services, operators can enhance ARPU, subscriber loyalty and lure incremental advertising dollars.

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To Be Free, or Not to Be. Does VP8 Limit Revenue Potential for GoogleTV?

Will service providera will jump on the VP8 bandwagon without being able to accommodate all licensing fees into their business model upfront? From the point of view of revenue security, it seems that rather than uniting the world behind a common (OK, supposedly free) codec, Google is really driving a wedge between commercial content and user-generated content.

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Meet us at HITEC to Secure Your Entertainment

IP video delivery in hospitality applications has the most advanced and cost effective technology. Visit us at HITEC to see how VCAS for IPTV can secure your premium content and VOD services.

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Putting the OTT Genie Back in the Bottle for Pay-TV Operators

Some operators have created the consumer expectation of free content and now they are having a hard time putting the “genie back in the bottle” when it comes to charging a fee for that content. It really puts into question the first mover advantage efforts by OTT providers to offer free content, as it appears they have potentially cannibalized their own long-term revenue streams. The question is if they can successfully extract money from existing and/or new viewers.

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A Landmark Deployment for Cardless Security

Verimatrix deploys industry’s first cardless security system with Filipino broadcaster ABS-CBN on DVB-S and IPTV networks within a unified security head-end

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What Operators Should Consider When Upgrading their Networks

We are in full swing with our tradeshow schedule for 2010! We had our team covering bases for CSTB in Moscow, Andina Link in Colombia and CABSAT in Dubai.
Now, we’ve all complained about tradeshows – they are costly, require a large amount of company resources to make them successful and can be murder if you [...]

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