Some 120,000 of our fellow gadget enthusiasts just finished a long week in Las Vegas, having attended the annual CES circus. Among the hottest topics at this year’s conference was Over-the-Top video delivery and the concept of “cord cutting,” with particular emphasis on (a) how best to exploit OTT technologies to steal subscriber revenue from incumbent PayTV operators, and conversely (b) how incumbents can best fend off this threat.
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Late last year BSkyB – the dominant PayTV operator in the U.K. – announced that the company would make its satellite PayTV service available on the open Internet to any U.K. resident with a broadband connection. Now, all a customer needs to do is go to the Sky website, pick a package, provide a credit card number, and they instantly have PayTV service from Sky. This revolutionary approach allows Sky to reach customers that are unable to get the service because of satellite dish restrictions. In effect, Sky has increased the number of “homes passed” (the number of households covered by the service signal) to virtually every U.K. resident....
I’ve been using the Flip Video HD camcorder for quite a while now. I love the small size and simplicity. It makes it easy to have with me at my daughter’s soccer games, on vacation and the like. For the money it’s hard to find an HD camera to beat it. ...
To date, the most successful Over-the-Top (OTT) video play has been the game console. With internet connectivity, video rendering, and established commerce capabilities, they have been the no-brainer platform to establish streaming to the television. Take for example Netflix on Xbox - within 12 weeks of release, more than one million consoles had downloaded and registered the software. So it was with great enthusiasm that the recent Sony PS3 and Netflix deal was received. However, while game consoles have been an easy pathway to the television (and will continue to be), this deal hints at a new wave of connectivity just now emerging …....
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Blu-ray's Key to OTT Growth Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory October 30 , 2009 One of the big conclusions of TDG’s upcoming report on the CE devices delivering Internet video to TV is the importance of Blu-ray Players. Until now one of...
Hulu loves free while News Corp wants them to charge. Disney loves Hulu but is still playing the field. Comcast won’t share its content with non-subscribers but Cablevision will. Confused? Though on the surface these positions seem unrelated, they are consistent with (and predicted by) TDG’s quantum theory of media. So, can quantum media make sense of these apparently contradictory moves in the market?
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