Tag Archives: Content
Novel idea: Stopping Piracy and Giving Viewers what they want
The European market is a long way from the US but moves over there are causing concern. You play with fire and you’ll get burned. Fox, which recently delayed new episodes of TV shows from streaming on Hulu until 8 days after they’ve aired, has already seen a spike in piracy for those shows. via [...]
Paying for Online Content
Research is a wonderful thing, and now it seems that we are more used to the idea of paying for content online than some thought. Research from ecommerce platform and strategic ecommerce consulting firm Elastic Path Software has revealed that a surprisingly large portion of online video viewers (75 per cent) are willing to pay [...]
Content Security Troubles for Connected TV
It is the elephant in the room when it comes to OTT – Can the content owner be sure that they get paid for their content? Boxee and Netflix are working to resolve Boxee’s specific issues. We’re in a bit of an awkward spot at the moment.The Netflix app is up and running on Boxee [...]
Google TV Updates
Google has gotten around to providing a much needed software update in the last couple of days, primarily focused on updating the Netflix app to something more akin to what every other box has. It also provides the remote control app and a few other fixes, but to be honest nothing groundshaking. The area where [...]
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 [...]