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Roku Now Has Over 13 million Active Customers

by Alan Spencer

Roku had 13.4 million active customers at the end of 2016 and they streamed nine billion hours of video and music in the year, including one billion hours in December 2016. According to Nielsen, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Vol 24 - Issue 08

YouTube to Launch New TV Service in US

by Alan Spencer

YouTube is launching a live linear TV service in the US for $35 per month. The service will include channels from the most popular cable networks plus a cloud DVR with unlimited storage. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 08| YouTube

YouTube to be Available on Xfinity X1

by Alan Spencer

The YouTube app will be available on the Xfinity X1 in the US later this year. That will allow X1 customers to easily browse and seamlessly access the entire YouTube catalogue of live shows, …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 08| YouTube

The Importance of Catch-Up and Personal Profiles for OTT TV

by Alan Spencer

SPB TV, a provider of end-to-end OTT TV solutions, conducted an online survey of their end-users of OTT TV and video services and found that this year is the year of the TV catch-up …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

ShowMax Poland Launch Tops Netflix

by Alan Spencer

ShowMax clocked up over twice as many viewers on PC devices as Netflix on 15th February, the day of its first broadcast in Poland. Data produced by PBI/Gemius, shows that ShowMax had 172,000 viewers …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Poland| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Smart TVs and Digital Devices Drive Demand for OTT

by Alan Spencer

According to the Frost & Sullivan Digital Media team there is a consumer preference for OTT content due to the widespread use of smart TVs and digital devices. Although the market slowed down during …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Broadpeak Claims 90% Latency Drop for OTT

by Bob Raikes

Broadpeak, of Rennes, France and a supplier of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide said that it has a new low latency service …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Ericsson and Vodafone Find Delays Cause Stress

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson and Vodafone have undertaken research in Germany on delays in broadband and have found, using Electroencephalography (EEG) equipment to measure brain activity, that even small delays and disturbances raise the level of tension …

Tags:Ericsson| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vodafone| Vol 24 - Issue 09

NorDig Adopts HbbTV 2 Specification

by Isaac Oburu

NorDig, which coordinates the technical specifications for digital TV in the Nordics (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark) and Ireland, has decided to support the adoption of HbbTV 2, an upgrade from its current support of …

Tags:Ireland| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| OTT Video| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Facebook Video Platforms Clarified

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Facebook’s move into video a couple of weeks ago and now the company has confirmed that the app will initially be rolled out on Apple TV, Amazon’s Fire TV and on …

Tags:| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Sony

Sony Drops Video Apps

by Bob Raikes

Sony has said that it will discontinue support for its PS Now (game streaming) and PS Video services. The PS Now service will stop on 2016 TVs in April and on other devices in …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 06