Category Archives: Mobile
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 [...]
Revolution of Evolution
There was once a time (once being even today in some product companies), when companies would spend two to three years on making a new product. That was the competitive environment back in the day. These days though products are developed in much less time than that, with new product being produced at least every [...]
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 [...]
iPad and the effect on the Digital Experience
I have written in the past about mobile devices, and now we have the launch of what the Apple faithfull believe to be the ultimate mobile device – the iPad. This is a very cool device by all accounts, and it could be a game changing device for the home digital experience… except for the [...]
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 [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
Mobile TV resurrected in the UK?
The BBC is testing the live streaming of its television and radio channels to wi-fi enabled mobile devices. BBC launches live mobile TV tests | Broadband TV News I have talked about this before, with the BT Movio service particularly. Video has not proven to be a huge draw for most people except those that [...]
Digital Britain – What now for Radio?
The Digital Britain report plainly emphasised DAB radio as the future of audio broadcast services in the UK. It under-emphasised however the fact that to survive, a new model of funding and customer acceptance had to be found and that technically DAB is struggling. DAB needs to move to DAB+ to allow more services with [...]
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]