Tag Archives: IPTV
Blackarrow Consulting at IBC2011
IBC has rolled round again and we will be enjoying the delights of the RAI – hot dogs and Coke Lite that are almost as expensive as Inkjet Printer Ink (that is the most expensive thing by volume on the planet I understand) – for the 14th year in a row, over the coming days [...]
Sony doubts Youview?
A very interesting post appeared on reghardware today Sony will not support the UK’s would-be IPTV standard, YouView, the company’s UK chief has revealed. via Sony says no to YouView • reghardware. There are two points to this news. Firstly that ‘yet another CE vendor’ has made public pronouncements about their lack of faith in [...]
Does the pipe really matter?
Every day and every week, people in the TV technology industry talk about Pay TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, OTT, Internet TV, Connected TV and all sorts of technical delivery platforms for content. We go to conferences about it where there is much discussion about how one is better than the other because of the special [...]
Connected TV World Summit and Awards
In the middle of next week (18/19 May 2011) I will be off to attend the Connected TV World Summit taking place at RIBA in London (http://connectedtvsummit.com/), along with two excellent breakfast briefings. This is a must-see event with the added bonus of the Connected TV Awards (http://connectedtvsummit.com/ctv-awards.html) on the evening of the 18th which [...]
IPTV World Forum Notes
Business Well IPTV World Forum 2011 has been through its first day and a few things have struck me. Firstly I did not go last year but I do go the year before that and there is a distinctly different buzz running around the floors – this year it is busy with the murmur of [...]
Connected TV at BVE2011
The Broadcast Video Expo 2011 was held from the 13th to 15th February at Earls Court, London. This show is all about content production and the tools required, from cameras to lights, editing systems to onscreen graphics. This was not really a consumer space show as such, however there were a number of presentations there [...]
Lack of Online Content
The recent inclusion of the UK commercial channels into the UI and search for the BBC iPlayer also showed me something else that was very clear. In iPlayer, you see a wealth of content with some blackspots of programmes that are not available such as Films and Sports. This is a tragedy but a commercial [...]
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 [...]
IBC2010 is at an end
There… it is finished, and by many accounts it has been a very successful one for the industry, although I would like to see the gross receipts from business done before I would crown it. It was a business-like IBC, with no real wow ‘almost products’, but an awful lot of ready to ship technology [...]
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 [...]