Tag Archives: VoD
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 [...]
The Cable Challenge
This week I have been returning to old thoughts about how things have changed over the last 10 years and what I see today as the rising challenge of Digital Terrestrial/Satellite combined with an Internet return path on Hybrid boxes. The decade started with Digital promise as wider scale EuroDOCSIS acceptance gave way to wider [...]
Kangaroo by the back door
News report on the Guardian newspaper web site (pointed out by Ryan Carson of Carsonified media – thanks) has put it that the BBC is mulling of the sharing of the iPlayer technology with Channel 4 and ITV. This sounds logical until you realise that it could be Kangaroo/Seesaw by the backdoor. I have been [...]
Orange finally gets around to talking about it
Well after my post the other day about the distinct absence of a TV service launch from Orange, it seems that they have come clean and basically delayed the service. However the reasons pushed seem to not be very sensible except for the issue of pushing a new service in the midst of a recession. [...]
Orange TV in the UK
Today I had a reminder pop into my head about the launch of Orange’s IPTV service in the UK. It has been around in France for sometime and has been pre-announced during the latter part of 2007 particularly at IBC2007. That last thing I can find is from the IPTV Watch site. Now here we [...]
IBC2008 3D VOD/EPG
I promised to return and talk about the 3D VOD/EPG demonstrator shown on the Eventis stand. As you can see from the pictures, it offers a very simple effect that is much more effective in person. It does offer a novel way of providing you with information about the movie or giving you a foreground [...]
Mutterings On Competition
Reading through my very own selection of blogs (via Google Reader), I gain a lot of information across a wide number of different subjects. Some relevant information, I place in my own customised ‘The Deeper News Headlines‘ feed that you can find just at the top right. Well today, I found something that I had [...]