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Parks Associates Releases Pay-TV, App, OTT, and User Interface Research

by Helen Vince

Parks Associates announced today the release of industry reports providing strategic recommendations for service providers, app developers, and platform developers as consumers turn increasingly to OTT and non-linear content options. The report Under Attack: …

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Netflix Future Proofs Programming With 6k Recording

by Tom Allen

Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has shot season three of its original programme, House of Cards, in 6k resolution. Netflix apparently used cameras from Red to accomplish the high-resolution challenge, with Encore handling …

Wuaki Reaches Italy, Has Big Plans in Europe

by Tom Allen

Spanish VoD service Wuaki.tv has now been launched in Italy. It aims to be in 15 European countries by the end of the year, having finished 2014 in four, with two million users. Ireland …

Cable TV Falls in Double Digits

by Tom Allen

According to Nielsen data, cable TV viewing in the USA was down 12.7% in January, as OTT services continue to gain popularity. Nomura Research, which highlighted the findings, called it ‘one of the worst …

Sling TV Adds AMC Network, is Open for Business

by Norbert Hildebrand

We have reported before on Sling TV as the OTT offering from Dish Network. This new service is now open for business in the USA. The IP-based video delivery system promises many channels for …

Of Rail Roads Pipelines and the FCC’s Internet

by Steve Sechrist

The US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) recently said it would seek (again) to gain regulation authority over the Internet, in a move that looks to secure Net Neutrality using some fundamental principles laid down …

Google Tops 10 Million

by Tom Allen

More than 10 million Chromecasts were sold worldwide last year. The news comes from Google Korea, which also told the Korea Times that more than 6,000 developers are working on apps for the device.

Verizon Plans to Start OTT Service in the Summer of 2015

by Norbert Hildebrand

Last year Verizon announced plans for an OTT service to be launched in 2015. During the latest earnings announcement, Verizon responded to questions about the OTT service by saying that they see the subscription …

Neotion, Broadpeak and Eutelsat provide satellite OTT delivery solution for smartphones, tablets and 4K screens

by Helen Vince

NEOTION, a French high-tech company providing innovative solutions for the international digital TV market, today announced that it has teamed up with Broadpeak and Eutelsat to provide a global solution to enable Free-To-Air or …

Tags:OTT Video| Smartphones| tablets| UltraHD & 4K

17% of US Broadband Households are Likely to Subscribe to an OTT HBO Service

by Vanessa Browning

New Parks Associates video research finds 17% of U.S. broadband households are likely to subscribe to an over-the-top (OTT) video service from HBO. Among these likely subscribers, 91% are currently pay-TV subscribers, and roughly …

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CES 2015 a Tipping Point for OTT/Streaming Video

by Bob Raikes

Phew!!! Last year, I thought our CES report was comprehensive – it ran to 48 pages. However, this year, the report has swollen to 80 pages as we have boosted our coverage of a …

Why “TV Everywhere” Isn’t

by Aldo Cugnini

Content providers made their annual pilgrimage to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and several were on tap at a discussion entitled, “Where Is TV Everywhere Taking Us”. With panelists from DISH …

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