Tag Archives: OTT
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 [...]
Google TV second coming (in the UK?)
Some months ago when Google TV launched in the US, I thought about the possibilities of how this could work in the UK. The UK and the US markets are very different, most notably the lack of overall control that pay TV has on the market in the UK. Now we have the news coming [...]
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 [...]
Bad puns and Seesaw
It is always sad to see a service that so many people I know have contributed to and created fail, even sadder when that failure could be seen from the very beginning (even before that). However, the failure of Seesaw now has many commentators talking about how it could have been a success. The announcement [...]
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 [...]
Youview nails
An interesting development yesterday: The BBC is opening up the BBC iPlayer to third party channels. The sharing of metadata from ITV, Channel 4, S4C, Five, SeeSaw and the MSN video player means that programmes from ‘rival’ channels can now be accessed directly from the BBC iPlayer website. via BBC iPlayer brings in rival channels [...]