Category Archives: DTV
IBC comes around again… is this one about real IPTV?
Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile [...]
Salutary Lesson for BSkyB
Whilst reading an update about Unitymedia, I found this quote regarding the affect of losing top flight football rights on a DTV operator. “Since Sky Deutschland has been the exclusive rights holder again, subscriber numbers have dropped considerably. At the end of March, arenaSAT only had 51,000 subscribers – a year ago it still had [...]
Google TV… will it succeed?
Is Google TV going to be the Google Mail or the Google Buzz? – that is success or fail by the way Will it have mass appeal?
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Anga Cable 2010
I found myself with a spare day in the week due to an interesting approach to public holidays by the Netherlands. With this I decided to take a day trip over to Cologne to take in a show that previously I had always found myself unable to attend – Anga 2010. This show is organised [...]
The Cable Challenge
This week I have been returning to old thoughts about how things have changed over the last 10 years and what I see today as the rising challenge of Digital Terrestrial/Satellite combined with an Internet return path on Hybrid boxes. The decade started with Digital promise as wider scale EuroDOCSIS acceptance gave way to wider [...]
Sky 3D
Now that Sky have announced the launch of their 3D channel in April and touted the super secret Pub shows this weekend, I might be changing my mind a little. It will be a feature of every TV in two years but will be barely used and event driven. Definitely not something that will justify [...]
Industry Changing
Ten years ago, if you asked many chief executives of cable and satellite companies what industry they were in, most would have said TV. Those that were transitioning to MSOs, would say that they were in the Dual play or triple-play entertainment and communication services business. Today, I am not so sure that they would [...]
CES and All New Things
As I sit here (not at CES and not having been there), it seems that all the news coming out of CES is talking about 3D TV, eBooks and tablet computers. I find the industry preoccupation with 3D rather disappointing, and most of my industry technical colleagues are similarly underwhelmed, notably because even as being [...]
DVR/PVR – Part of the Solution or just interim
Ever since the first PVR/DVRs were released, they have transformed the home TV experience. No longer were you stuck to the schedule, you could watch a programme whenever you wanted, and they were an excellent replacement for tape or DVD based recorders. The only thing that could get in the way were obscure User Interfaces, [...]