Posted June 30, 2010 ¬ 5:00 amh.Steve Oetegenn
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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DRM, IPTV, Internet TV, Mobile TV, Revenue security, Whole home video, adaptive rate streamingadaptive rate streaming, cloud-based TV, digital TV, home networking, media gateway, multi-device, multi-screen, OTT
Posted April 6, 2010 ¬ 8:15 amh.Petr Peterka
Sitting at a cafe in Heathrow airport after the IPTV World Forum and sipping a cup of very good coffee, I am pondering over my impressions from the show. It is a fascinating and very fragmented world. Too many components, too many dependencies, too complex integration and most likely an involved customization effort. (I saw this echoed [...]
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Content security, DRM, IPTV, Netflix, adaptive rate streaming, pay TVadaptive rate streaming, Conditional Access, Content Security, DRM, home networking, OTT, pay TV
Posted September 28, 2009 ¬ 10:54 amh.Tom Munro
IBC has always been a platform for showcasing the next big thing in pay TV. Operators come to hear about the latest technology platforms and get a sense of what is real and what is purely in the demo stage. Because of the innovation explosion that has occurred in this industry over the past several [...]
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