Posted July 11, 2010 ¬ 4:09 pmh.Steve Oetegenn
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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Internet TV, OTT, Revenue security, Whole home video, digital TV security, pay TVCDN, cloud-based TV, digital TV, DLNA, home networking, MoCA, OTT, Parks Associates, pay TV, QoS, Whole home video
Posted July 8, 2010 ¬ 10:28 pmh.Steve Christian
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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Revenue security, Standards, Steve Christian, digital TV securitycatch-up TV, DRM, free-to-air, IBC, IPTV World Forum, Marlin, pay TV, Project Canvas
Posted June 8, 2010 ¬ 9:44 amh.Steve Christian
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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Cable, IPTV, Internet TV, OTT, Revenue security, Satellite, Steve Christian, adaptive rate streamingARPU, Cable, digital TV, IPTV, OTT, pay TV, Revenue security, Satellite
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 March 11, 2010 ¬ 1:14 pmh.Steve Oetegenn
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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Content security, Network migration, Revenue security, Satellite, Steve Oetegenn, pay TVConditional Access, Content Security, DVB, IPTV, pay TV, Revenue security
Posted November 20, 2009 ¬ 7:47 amh.Steve Christian
I can’t help but draw a parallel between the jaw-dropping architecture that characterizes the Dubai skyline and the TV systems of the near future contemplated by some of the region’s more ambitious pay-TV operators. The IPTV World Forum meeting here this week helped to label the Middle East and Africa as potentially one of the most dynamic markets in the [...]
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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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