“Beginning in 2012, however, connected TVs and gaming consoles have seen tremendous growth and consumer adoption. Unlike smart phones and tablets, these devices give consumers the best of both worlds: the vast set of options made available via IP-based video catalogs in addition to the traditional lean-back experience of watching video on the big screen. As a result, consumers are watching more and more video through these devices than ever before.”
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French firm Technicolor has released a new software framework designed specifically to bridge ecosystems within the digital home, called ‘Qeo’ and providing consumer device manufacturers, developers and service providers with a new common ‘language’.”
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“AT&T is combining Akamai’s industry leading content delivery platform with its world-renowned IP network to deliver to companies an exclusive suite of global CDN and telecom solutions that will be jointly marketed, managed and supported by the two companies. The companies will initially focus their efforts in North America, with plans to expand globally within 12 months.”
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Some of the world’s most prominent news outlets are setting up shop with Dailymotion by creating original channels for the video-sharing site. Al-Jazeera, The Daily Telegraph, Russia Today and Vice are some of the names that will be uploading content to Dailymotion, reports IP&TV News. All of them have a strong presence on YouTube and this is a move to expand into the second-most visited video-sharing site in the world.
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Households subscribing to pay-TV services are increasingly using “over the top” (OTT) options to supplement what they are already watching, according to a new report from research firm Centris Marketing Science. What’s becoming clear is that viewers are more in control of their viewing habits than ever before and as they grow more comfortable with these new IP-based platforms, content distributors have to target these devices if they want to reach audiences increasingly on the go. In addition, many are former cable, satellite and Telco TV service subscribers that now use OTT platforms exclusively.
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“Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) will deploy video gateways later this year that will contain a DVR with six tuners and 1 terabyte of storage, COO Rob Marcus said Thursday on the company’s second-quarter earnings call.
The gateways will be able to transcode traditional cable channels delivered in QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) into IP video, and deliver video to IP-based devices ranging from gaming consoles to connected TVs.”
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“The future of Google as a hardware manufacturer (beyond its purchase of Motorola) continues to be shrouded in rumor and mystery, but the GFHD100 box that just popped up in the FCC’s database is very much a fact. As seen in the pictures, it’s sporting a Google Fiber label which suggests it’s a part of rolling out video services to the Kansas Cities, and also reveals it’s being built for Google by Humax.”
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“The ability to access full Internet sites, over-the-top (OTT) video services, apps and TV Everywhere from increasingly powerful mobile devices has reduced the incentive for consumers to pay for dedicated carrier-based mobile video services, according to US research firm SNL Kagan.”
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“When Xfinity announced their Xbox 360 application and said that the data usage would not be counted against our bandwidth caps, we became curious. We wanted to understand more about how the traffic entered our homes and how it might be treated in comparison to the rest of the traffic coming through the same plug on our cable modems. Here are the tests we ran along with the results.”
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“Just 20% to 30% of Connected TVs in Europe are actually being hooked up to the Internet, according to a new report by the European Commission on the application of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD).”
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