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Serving Viewers Who Want It All Is A Tough, Uncertain Challenge

by Andy Marken

“Okay, once we get above here, above the South Col, our bodies will be literally dying. And I mean literally dying. It’s not called the Death Zone for nothing.”—Rob Hall, “Everest,” Working Title Films, …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 13

21% of US Pay TV Households Buy SVOD Through Their Provider

by Andrew Fenn

New research from Parks Associates shows that 21% of US pay TV subscribers say they subscribe to an online video service through their pay TV provider, up from 10% a year ago. The research …

Endeavor Acquires NeuLion in $250 Million Deal

by Andrew Fenn

NeuLion—a technology product and service provider specialising in the digital video broadcasting, distribution and monetisation of live and on-demand content to internet-enabled devices—and entertainment company Endeavor have announced that they have entered into a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Edgeware Enables Server-Side Ad Insertion for Android and iOS Devices

by Andrew Fenn

Edgeware has announced Ad Enabler, which the company claims will make its ad insertion solution one of the first to support live OTT ad insertion on the MPEG-DASH standard, the native format for Android …

Tags:Advertising| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Spanish Broadcasters to Collaborate on New OTT TV Platform

by Andrew Fenn

Spanish broadcasters RTVE, Atresmedia and Mediaset España will team up to develop a joint OTT TV platform to rival big competitors such as Netflix in Spain, it has been announced. The trio will initially …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Spain| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Deloitte: 55% of US Households Now Subscribe to SVOD

by Andrew Fenn

American consumers’ appetite for streaming video continues to grow and they have no qualms shelling out cash for original content, according to Deloitte, whose report found that 55% of US households now subscribe to …

Apple TV Gets HDR Content – Probably!

by Bob Raikes

In looking for some information about Apple’s streaming, we came upon this article that explains the frustrations and problems of actually trying to watch HDR on an Apple TV. The author is something of …

Russian OTT Market Grew by 50% in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to data from TMT Consulting, the value of the online video market in Russia grew by 50% last year to 7.2 billion rubles ($124 million). As reported by Broadband TV News, Ivi was …

FandangoNow Joins iTunes and Amazon Video in Movies Anywhere

by Andrew Fenn

FandangoNow is following in the footsteps of iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play and Vudu, becoming the latest online video retailer to join the Movies Anywhere initiative, which allows movie fans to source content from …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Get Ready for a New Codec

by Bob Raikes

One of those bits of critical, but (hopefully) transparent technology that gets the video that we all love through the ether, copper or fibre, is the codec and there’s an important new one coming, …

Tags:Codecs| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Netflix CEO Rules Out Live Sports, News and Advertising

by Andrew Fenn

Netflix recently held its Labs Day press event in Hollywood, where the company’s CEO, Reed Hastings, stated that it has no plans to launch any kind of live TV service, including sports and news, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 10

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …