Microsoft Corp. may expand beyond the Xbox with a new streaming video set-top box that would compete against Apple TV, Google TV, Roku and other players in the retail market.
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Tag Archives: OTT
OTT views surpassed IPTV viewers
As we all know well, the TV experience is changing rapidly from a traditional linear TV, to one which is consumer-driven, mobile – to second screen devices
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» Netflix’s US Subscribers Pass HBO – Congrats and Brickbats – tdgresearch
“An important event just occurred in the evolution of OTT. Last week, Netflix released its first quarter 2013 earnings and reported 29.2 million US streaming subscribers, passing HBO (with 28.7 million US subs as of the end of 2012, estimated by SNL Kagan as reported by Variety).”
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The Future of HEVC: It’s Coming, but with Plenty of Questions – Streaming Media Magazine
“HEVC is the next-gen compression technology lauded as the enabler for a host of new services and capabilities. I discuss the historical development of HEVC and its technical underpinnings in my article “What Is HEVC (H.265)?” In this article, I’ll briefly review those findings and focus on how quickly HEVC will make a mark in streaming media and OTT markets.”
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Ericsson sees plenty of mileage for Mediaroom in IPTV | Broadcast Engineering Blog
“Confirmation of Ericsson’s acquisition of Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform came as a relief to those of us who had more or less preannounced its happening, but should have come as no surprise at all.
Mediaroom had been in a state of limbo after earlier successes, as Microsoft set about refocusing its TV efforts around its Xbox gaming console in the OTT rather than IPTV arena. Microsoft appeared content just to hold on to its existing accounts, leading some commentators to suggest that Mediaroom was “dead in the water”, although that always looked like overstating the mark.”
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Come Test Out More Than 50 Different Streaming Devices and OTT Video Platforms, All In One Room – Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
“With all the smart TVs, game consoles, tablets and $99 streaming media devices in the market, the OTT world is crowded with options. Trying to figure out which box offers the best choice of content platforms, quality and cost can be confusing. That’s why for the third year in a row we’re bringing back the special “Streaming Devices Pavilion” at the Streaming Media East show (#smeast), May 21-22, letting attendees get hands-on with more 50 over-the-top (OTT) video devices and platforms, all in one room.”
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Digital TV Europe Channels » OTT service Magine plans European rollout
“The subscription service is designed to let viewers watch live or in catch-up channel content from the cloud, with Magine paying a per-sub carriage fee in line with that paid by traditional pay TV platforms – effectively making it an OTT pay TV platform operator.”
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AppearTV – Multiscreen & OTT Solution
“The Appear TV Multiscreen and OTT module provides a fully integrated, hardware-based system capable of simultaneously preparing multiple signals from any input source in any format for distribution to a high definition television in the home, a high-resolution computer screen and lower-resolution Web- and mobile-based profiles. The system accommodates different bit rates optimized for each destination device while maintaining a high QoS and exceptional reliability.”
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Acutek Solution, Beenius and Dune HD Team to Create End-to-End IPV and OTT Platform for Content Operators
One Hundred Connected Box Giveaway at NAB Lets Operators Test for Free the Dune HD TV-102AW with Integrated Social TV and Complete SaaS Delivery Platform
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EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendez-vous for OTT and Hybrid TV
Broadcast meets Broadband : that’s the promise of the EBU’s hybrid event which flies between industry competition, standardization efforts and broadcasters’ realpolitik.
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