Archive for the ‘OTT’ Category
by Michael Grotticelli May 16th, 2012
LightSquared, once a promising facilitator of low-cost broadband access for 260 million users, filed for bankruptcy this week after losing a brutal fight with the GPS industry in the U.S.
 LightSquared had depended on winning FCC approval to convert airwaves originally designated for satellite service to spectrum for land-based radio towers. Based in Reston, Virginia, LightSquared listed debt and assets of more than $1 billion each in a Chapter 11 filing today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York City, Bloomberg News reported. Reports said the court filing came after intense negotiations with creditors, who had requested that the company’s main backer, Philip Falcone, resign. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bankruptcy, broadband, Harbinger Capital Partners, LightSquared, wireless
Related Topics: Infrastructure, News, OTT, Products, RF and Mobile TV |
by Michael Grotticelli May 4th, 2012
DirecTV has launched a Digital Entertainment Products division devoted to creating digital entertainment across all mobile, tablet, web, native apps, third-party devices and video on-demand platforms.
Tony Goncalves, an executive with the company since in 2007, will head up the new division. He was a key player in securing DirecTV’s partnership with AT&T and led the team that closed the CenturyLink partnership. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: applications, devices, digital entertainment, Digital Entertainment Products, DirecTV, division, Internet, Mobile Video, networks, OTT, platforms, tablets, video on demand, VOD, Web
Related Topics: HDTV, News, OTT, Products, RF and Mobile TV |
by Michael Grotticelli May 3rd, 2012
Hulu, the popular online service for television viewing, may soon switch from being free to requiring users to prove they are pay television customers, the “New York Post” has reported.
Hulu, the report said, attracted 31 million unique users in March under a free-for-all model. But the newspaper quoted sources saying the move by Hulu toward the new business model—called “authentication” because viewers would have to log in with their cable or satellite TV account number—was behind the move last week by Providence Equity Partners to sell out its share of Hulu after five years. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Comcast, Disney, engineering, Fox Network, Free Press, Hulu, Internet viewing, Mashable Entertainment, NBC, News Corp., online, OTT, over-the-top, Providence, TV everywhere, video streaming
Related Topics: HDTV, Infrastructure, News, OTT, RF and Mobile TV |
by Michael Grotticelli May 1st, 2012
For content owners looking to develop new types of third-party and direct-to-the-consumer file delivery services (e.g., Amazon, Netflix, and Google) but not know exactly how to do it, a number of companies want to hold your hand and show you the way.
At the recent NAB Show, companies like Dell, GlobeCast, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Signiant (to name a few) all showed their versions of a “plug and play” architecture that, leveraging cloud-based equipment and file transfer/management software, could get an over-the-top (OTT), content delivery network (CDN) up and running within a matter of days. Other services allow broadcasters to distribute content created for TV to alternative platforms in order to expand their audience and (someday) generate new revenue. OTT services use packet-based Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructures already deployed to simultaneously deliver thousands of on-demand audio and video clips while cloud-based technology keep OpEx costs low and flexibility to expand and contract as required, high. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: architectures, broadcast engineering, content delivery, Dell, GlobeCast, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, NAB, networks, over-the-top, plug and play, services, Signiant
Related Topics: HDTV, Infrastructure, NAB, News, OTT, Products, RF and Mobile TV, Storage & Networking |
by Michael Grotticelli April 26th, 2012
Broadcasters and cable operators have a formidable opponent who took his case for Internet broadcasting directly to Congress this week.
Barry Diller, the movie and television mogul who heads IAC/InterActiveCorp, told lawmakers there is room for everyone in web video broadcasting and that the established players should move over and not hinder newcomers from offering online programming. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Aero, engineering, IAC/InterActiveCorp., IP streaming, OTT, RF, subscription services, terrestrial broadcast
Related Topics: HDTV, Infrastructure, News, OTT, RF and Mobile TV |
by Michael Grotticelli April 25th, 2012
Last week’s NAB show was attended by 91,932 professionals from the worldwide broadcast and professional video production industries, up about 4.5 percent from the 88,044 that gathered in 2011. Dennis Wharton, the NAB’s Executive Vice President of Media Relations, said that an estimated $30 billion in commerce was generated by the show including the business done on the exhibit hall floor by the 1,600 exhibitors occupying 815,000 net square feet of exhibit space. The NAB Show has attracted more than 110,000 people in its heyday in 2007.
“The economy is getting better and the financial outlook for the broadcast industry in general, reflected by this year’s extremely positive show, is improving as well,” Wharton said, alluding to the increase this year in exhibitor participation and an almost 10 percent increase in size (up from 1,550 exhibitors occupying 745,000 net square feet) from 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 4K, attendance, cameras, cellular, convention, exhibitors, lenses, media, NAB, OTT, over-the-top, Production, transmission
Related Topics: 3-D, Automation, ENG, HDTV, Infrastructure, NAB, News, Newsrooms, OTT, Production, Products, RF and Mobile TV, Storage & Networking, T&M |
by Michael Grotticelli April 23rd, 2012
Adobe Systems released a report at NAB last week showing increased viewer acceptance of TV-like ad experiences on the Internet. The report found online viewers are watching online ads during live events and “mid-roll commercial breaks.”
It also determined that users are the most actively engaged viewers when it comes to consuming video ads on tablets and smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Adobe Systems, advertising, Internet, Mobile Video, online, streaming, video, Web
Related Topics: NAB, News, OTT, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli April 13th, 2012
 The latest version of iNEWS Command offers significantly enhanced graphics control features such as editing graphics templates directly from the Command workstation user interface, now accessed via the iPad.. At NAB (Booth #SU902) Avid is showing a new app for the Apple iPad that allows news anchors and reporters to control the playout of graphics and video while on-air. The company said it’s ideally suited to live or recorded broadcasts and election coverage.
The new iNEWS Command 3.0 on iPad shotbox app supports a variety of graphics platforms including Avid Motion Graphics and Chyron HyperX, as well as several video servers including Avid’s AirSpeed and Omneon (Harmonic)’s Spectrum.
The latest version of iNEWS Command (3.0) also offers significantly enhanced graphics control features such as editing graphics templates directly from the Command workstation user interface, allowing users to fix mistakes on the fly right up to air time.
Bill Hadsell, senior product manager at Avid, said the new app puts complete content control into the hands of on-air talent so they can tell the most compelling stories right from their device. “And best of all, the intuitive interface means there is no training necessary.”
The Command shotbox app will be available in Q2 of 2012 and will be offered for free on the iTunes App Store. Customers must first purchase a low cost iNEWS Command device license to operate this functionality as an extension of the iNEWS Command system.
Avid has continued to provide access to its products features through portable devices like the iPad. Other products that can now be controlled by the iPad (or other tablet) include Avid Studio, an easy-to-use app that enables users to edit video, audio, and photos.
Tags: Apple, applications, Avid, Command, control, iNEWS, iPad, newsroom computer systems, tablets
Related Topics: ENG, HDTV, Infrastructure, Newsrooms, OTT, Production, Products, Storage & Networking |
by Michael Grotticelli April 10th, 2012
Consumers’ desire to have their media content with them anywhere and anytime on any device will necessitate change at wireless telecom networks. Wireless companies have recently imposed data limits on their services.
 The big question is: can broadcasters find a market for mobile digital television? At the same time, broadcasters—still trying to get mobile digital television off the ground—see an opportunity to use its local towers to supplement that broadband video coverage. But can broadcasters provide a product that will be desirable to the wireless providers? And, in the bigger picture, can broadcasters find a market for mobile digital television? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cell phones, Mobile Television, NAB, portable devices, Super Session, tablets
Related Topics: Infrastructure, News, OTT, Production, Products, RF and Mobile TV |
by Michael Grotticelli April 6th, 2012
Roughly 31 percent of U.S. broadband households now regularly watch TV programs or movies accessed from the Internet on their TVs, according to Park Associates, a marketing research company.
 Kurt Sherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates, said that IP-based, ondemand services have achieved broad appeal among multiple consumer segments. Growing sales of video receivers such as Apple TV and Roku in the 2011 holiday season show a strong consumer appetite for Over-the-Top (OTT) video, the firm said. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Apple TV, content, Internet, Internet Protocol, networks, OTT, over the top services, Parks & Associates, Roku, Television viewing, U.S. Broadcast Households
Related Topics: Infrastructure, News, OTT, Storage & Networking |
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