Delivering HD content on-demand from the network could solve some bandwidth constraint issues, but content providers in the United States have yet to be convinced...
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer HD video and digital video recorder (DVR) services...
As far as customers are concerned, it’s more about TV than IPTV. So how can service providers help customers understand such things as eight-hour installation times, and should they even bother explaining that the TV now has its own IP address? ...
Telcos planning to use copper as part of their IPTV delivery systems are pushing their vendors to get as much bandwidth as possible out of those embedded copper lines. Equipment vendors are now discovering new ways to get that additional bandwidth from copper access lines...
IPTV is finally coming of age. Major telcos in the United States and overseas have launched their services and now compete with cable and satellite operators in the pay-TV market. In the broader market of content delivery, consumers have even more choice, as online players and consumer electronics giants enter the game.
The big question is: Who will triumph in this battle for domination of the living room? In an increasingly competitive market, will IPTV ever be profitable for telcos, or is it actually a catch-22 — can't survive without it, can't make money from it?...
New technology is disrupting traditional advertising. In its place new forms of advertising are evolving. Advertising spending in emerging online channels is growing fast. At the 2007 3GSM World Congress, the IBM Institute for Business Value unveiled “A Future in Content(ion).” The report predicted that revenues from in-game, mobile, online and interactive TV promotions will reach $60 billion a year — or 45 percent of the digital content market — by 2010...
IP is primarily a unicast protocol. It was designed to move data from a single source to a single destination. IP, however, also defines multicast addresses. These are destination addresses that represent more than one destination device. The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) manages multicast data flows...
As telecom carriers get their hooks into American homes, they will gain an unprecedented view into our lives, gathering more comprehensive and detailed information on subscribers than perhaps any other sector of the business world. Controlling that information can be a windfall in advertising and other revenue if carriers use it wisely — and a firestorm if they don't...
Broadcast playout automation as a concept is not much more than 20 years old. Before then, a channel was played out by a number of staff, working a master control switcher and a bank of VTRs. The concept of automation was to replace at least some of those staff with computer cuing and triggering, and a robotic tape library for the content...
