Tag Archives: Content
Electronic Content Guides coming next
The entertainment world has become a complex place compared to 20+ years ago. Back then the UK had 4 channels and the biggest challenge was in ensuring that you had an in house distribution feed for those terrestrial analogue channels, that you had remote control capability and that on at least one TV you had [...]
Cooling of the IPTV Set-Top Market
The cooling of the IPTV set-top market as reported by Broadband TV News is an interesting development. IPTV set-top market is ‘cooling down’ : Broadband TV News. Much of the growth identified in the report was down to market launches which mop up the early adopters very easily. However, we have not seen the organic [...]
Filtering breaks down
The IWF has now backed down from censoring an image on Wikipedia, the censorship of which was adjudged by many to be too wide ranging by taking in the entire page, in addition to the fact that the image (although not nice) was generally available in libraries, record stores and online download services. The secondary [...]
Filtering and its effect on IPTV
Outside of the walled gardens of mainstream IPTV providers like BBC iPlayer, Tiscali/Homechoice and BT Vision, there is a lot of content being provided by over the Internet to PCs and to TV connected PCs. I am not talking about the fenced gardens like Youtube, but the content being provided by companies such as Revision3, [...]
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 [...]