Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Customers doing the unexpected?
BSkyB have seemingly suffered from a customer imposed failure, where a certain percentage of boxes are suffering a severe code failure after a new code download. What was the certain percentage? Those customers of a low spec PVR that have undertaken a home disk upgrade. This was low spec as it is one of the [...]
DVR Success in the UK
The recent Ofcom report which stated that UK viewers are, as a proportion, more likely to own a DVR/PVR, was really promising, showing that 30% of viewers have one, as reported by InformITV and others. However the numbers have been questioned by InformITV based on a quick count of the numbers across each platform, estimating [...]
Economic Downturn Death Knell for Mass Adoption IPTV?
It seems easy to call the slowdown of IPTV deployments with the economic downturn now under way. Could we go further and call the death of mass adoption IPTV? By death, I mean a delay of a decade or more, and by mass adoption I mean a service that can easily provide for 4 screens [...]
Digital TV and Social Networking: Friendfeed Room
The blog world is buzzing with all sorts of new applications being used by the tech world, however the DTV industry seems to be slightly holding back apart from the purchase of Plaxo by Comcast earlier this year. Not being one to hold back, I have been delving into this world for some time however, [...]
The Secret to IPTV
IPTV growth has been a slow thing in the UK and there have been a few questions about that, mainly along the line of the technology and how to excite the customers about that. This is missing the point as ‘normal’ customers do not really care about the technology – they care about what it [...]
Orange finally gets around to talking about it
Well after my post the other day about the distinct absence of a TV service launch from Orange, it seems that they have come clean and basically delayed the service. However the reasons pushed seem to not be very sensible except for the issue of pushing a new service in the midst of a recession. [...]
Blogging CEOs in DTV
In the world of PR, Social Networking and Silicon Valley it is not uncommon for the senior management of a company to blog including its CEO. In the DTV world (although I have not done a full survey) I have not really noticed anyone blogging, particularly outside the Firewall to the outside world. Today I [...]