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Comcast and the Multiscreen Play
By Jesse Cryderman“Cable operators are not really cable TV operators anymore. Their focus has really expanded beyond the TV set.”
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IPTV: One Size fits None
By Becky BrackenPeople take their television really, really personally. And so should their providers. Since Generation X-ers first declared "I Want My MTV!", personalized premium video content has become an integral part of people’s lives. Now, with advent of tablets, smartphones, YouTube and LOL cats, customers are no longer differentiating between cable, satellite and online video content, and service providers everywhere are racing to put the power of TV right in their customers' hands, wherever they go.
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HbbTV Overture Couched in Terms of Comfort
By Don FujiwaraAh, the couch. The unsung hero of the living room, the couch is, at once, a repository for loose change and petrified, half-eaten Twizzlers; the surrogate scratching post of wayward housecats; and the nighttime destination for those unfortunate enough to have forgotten an anniversary.
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Trendy but Costly: Why 3DTV Might Not Be Such a Sure Bet
By Melissa SmithFor almost two years, 3DTV has been marketed as the next big thing. Because consumers are spending money in theaters for 3D movies—The Lion King 3D made more than $30 million in its opening weekend alone—developers are pushing to bring the 3D experience into the home through television. But the transition to 3D might not be such a sure bet.
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Is TV Everywhere Going Anywhere?
By Tim YoungI got a call today. It was from your couch. It misses you.
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The OTT Video Experience: what mobile service providers should be doing to monitor OTT video
By Mate PrginIt could be argued that Over-the-Top (OTT) video is having the single biggest effect on Content Service Providers (CSPs) since the advent of text messaging. While taking advantage of the easy-to-stream videos companies such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube are providing, smartphone, tablet and PDA owners are congesting networks and, in the process, unwittingly having a detrimental impact on their own stream and video Quality of Experience (QoE).
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The Battle for Video
By Jesse CrydermanWhen I grew up, video wasn't an entertainment category as much as it was a television, or if you were lucky, a movie screen. Families didn't watch “videos,” they watched television shows or movies, and there was no pause button on the remote control. The commercialization of home video arguably ushered the word “video” into the popular lexicon, and sparked a shift to a consumption model that, for the first time, was not appointment based. In response to demand, soon after came DVRs and VOD, then OTT services and IPTV, and now robust mobile video offerings.
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Service Assurance for the Next Generation of Video
By Paul CasinelliToday’s consumers can’t get enough video. As traditional broadcast TV viewership continues to grow, consumption of Internet and mobile video is rising at an outstanding rate. Over 75% of global consumers watch video content over the Internet via connected devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs. Furthermore, the growth rate of video traffic over the Internet is truly explosive, estimates state it will reach 58% percent of total Internet traffic in 2015. With internet and mobile traffic increasing at such an impressive rate, multiscreen video and Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming technologies are firmly placed at the center of this video everywhere transformation.
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Newswatch - November 2011
By Jesse CrydermanWelcome to the Post-PC Era
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Letter from the Editor
By Tim YoungMy, oh my. What a long way the talkies have come.
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