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Cablevision has found some friends in the network DVR case which it lost earlier this year in court: Several trade bodies and lobby groups, including USTelecom, which represents AT&T and Verizon, the Consumer Electronics Association, CTIA, and the Electro
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Beginning July 1, the Federal Communications Commission has ordered cable companies to supply only set-top boxes that can accept a so-called cablecard that slides into the set-top box and determines a customer's level of access to cable service. The chang
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We examine whether, on legal or policy grounds, video services provided over a telephone network should be regulated as a traditional cable service or whether a different approach is warranted. We evaluate the history of cable regulation and the services
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Reading the news today about Cox’s decision to “disable” the fast-forwarding capability from its network-based DVR for certain popular ABC shows and ESPN football broadcasts, you had to wonder: What took them so long to figure this out?
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Media Bureau Reports The following items are all Media Reports on the cable industry available for download from the Internet.
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VDC, which started offering live streaming video over the Internet last spring, has struck out repeatedly trying to buy the broad range of TV programming it wants, mostly due to resistance from the cable television industry and its suppliers. The tiny Nor
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Welcome to Virtual Digital Cable - The leading provider of cable television on your computer! Subscriber Updates... We're Working For You... We've heard your requests, and we have taken action at the Federal Communications Commission to secure the pro
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In English, that means that the cable and satellite companies could take the uploaded videos and push them out to all DVRs of anyone who has subscribed receive those videos in a single stream. internet video requires 1 stream per person per video.The use
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TV is going to open up to the masses. It will no longer be controlled by the big cable or satellite players. Just like with the web, TV will become a much more efficient medium by turning itself into an open network where everyone can participate. Your d
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First, the technology has to be invisible to the customer. “It needs a very easy interface, with only one button to push, said Becks”. Panelist Benoit Joly of Thomson agreed, saying it must be “granny proof”. Second, IPTV needs to offer everything
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But Apple still can’t come close to the comparatively infinite offerings of cable and satellite, at least not right now, counsels John Guillaume, SVP of Product and Marketing at New Global Telecom, a provider of VoIP technologies to cable and telecom co
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Mit dem neuen TV-Angebot von Swisscom beschleunigt sich die Digitalisierung der Fernsehwelt. Das hat Folgen: Die Zuschauer werden vermehrt die Möglichkeit nutzen, Werbeblöcke zu überspringen.
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Those 274 franchises translate to about 5.4 million households, CZ says. He brags that with churn rate below 1.5%, customers seem to like what VZ has to offer. At the end of 2006, Verizon expected to have 175,000 video customers.
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In ten years’ time, the difference between the telcos that succeed and cable companies will largely be defined by their respective histories. For those that fail, we won’t be making any comparisons. Just don’t write them off too soon.
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Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will see a continuation of large scale fibre announcements from the various incumbent telcos around the globe. Key leaders include the telcos in Japan, Korea, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and th
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Now, the Bells’ chief competitors are Time Warner Cable, Comcast and other cable providers that have the technology, armies of installers and marketing budgets to lure away video and phone customers. By the end of the year, for instance, cable operators
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EMI will provide its extensive catalog of music videos from many of the world's most popular artists to consumers on both the Gotuit Broadband Video Portal at www.gotuit.com in the U.S. and through the Gotuit Video on Demand (VOD) cable service, available
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Comcast is expected to announce a deal with Disney to offer some of ABC’s top shows on video on demand for free, reports the Wall Street Journal. Desperate Housewives, Lost and World News with Charles Gibson are among the VOD shows, as well as selected
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- Buena Vista International Television, der internationale Filmvertrieb der Walt Disney Company, hat eine langjährige Vereinbarung über Pay-Per-View-Lizenzen mit der On Demand-Gruppe, dem VoD-Partner von Kabel Deutschland, getroffen.
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Users can submit clips in eight main categories - comedy, animation, games, movies, horror/sci-fi, action/drama, music and reality TV. The main competition at launch is a contest to find the best Jedi - the prize is a 3-day trip to the Kennedy Space Cente
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new research suggests the average American is actually opting for convenience over control, and that the trend is actually driving the consolidation of media and telecommunications services into a handful of increasingly powerful media gatekeepers and pac
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But programming will almost certainly be offered via a subscription service, much like the mixture of HBO movies and original fare such as The Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love now offered by cable and satellite operators for a monthly fee of $10 to $12 or mor
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Spot Runner uses the Internet to create low-cost, well-produced ads. Local business owners tap an online library of thousands of stock commercials to customize and schedule their own TV spots. The company then places the ads on local cable and network TV,
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Comcast is about to launch a user-generated video site and TV VOD channel Ziddio...users who upload videos in specific categories have a chance to win prizes and national distribution of their original content on the VOD channel, according to this release
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So basically, the big TV distributors could pretty easily work out deals with content rightsholders to be everything Youtube wants to be, but have the inside track to get it done quickly since they are already paying money to the rightsholder and this wou
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Nielsen Media Research's plan for measuring viewership of TV commercials was dealt a severe blow when most of the big cable networks said they would not participate in the new ratings system, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Tuesday.
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Major League Baseball has taken a big step towards the future of what we now call TV. That future doesn’t include channels. More importantly, it turns cablecos (and telcos trying to be cablecos) into dumb pipes. They’re not going to like that but w
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On the PC side, the files are going to be encoded in mp4/m4p and Flash format, which means you can either stream your "paid for" movies directly from either a browser or a third party app, or download the mp4/m4p to watch on your computer
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A version of the Current TV channel launched by Al Gore in the United States a year ago is to be available in the UK and Ireland following an agreement with satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
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Cable giant Comcast will be launching its PC and TV download store by the end of this month. Users will be able to pay once and then download or stream the TV shows or music on the TV or on the PC
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Kabel BW streamt für seine Kunden einige Kanäle live mit ca. 2 Mbit/s ins Internet. Die Streams sind im WMV-Format und ein paar Spartenkanäle stehen für alle offen.
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By 2015, Kagan Research expects TV programming delivered by telcos to grow to a 9% market-from its 0.1% share today. Cable networks will take the biggest hit if this happens--dropping to 61.1% from their current levels of 69.6%.
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Don’t underestimate Cable (Comcast) as a player in consumer-generated media. They’ll buy or build their way there, and allow for much better quality streamed video if they succeed.
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Viacom, which owns such basic cable channels as MTV, BET, VH1, TV Land and Comedy Central, plans to be more aggressive in using the Web to create more revenue opportunities around those networks
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The Journal reports that pay-TV companies are starting to get serious about the Internet TV challenge. In particular Comcast is bolstering its video-on-demand offerings, and Time Warner Cable is experimenting with time-shifting options.
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These top broadband providers now account for about 48.3 million high-speed Internet subscribers – with cable having 26.9 million broadband subscribers, and DSL having 21.3 million subscribers.
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In a first-of-its-kind deal that's sure to be imitated, CBS has pacted with Comcast to make all of the primetime series it wholly owns available on-demand, for free, the day after they air.
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the world of “Video on the Net” starts to grow up and challenge the status quo across the broadcast, cable and TV industries, this emerging industry to have to deal with similar types of challenges when existing laws are attempted to be leveraged by t
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Wöchtenliche Prime-Time-Ratings aus den USA.
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Gefahr für die Kabelunternehmen: Probelm Bandbreite: Free Internet TV. This is a simple and downloadable Windows application that allows you to watch more than 1,200 live television channels from 100 countries by streaming media.
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Werbe finanzierte VoD Angebote sind nicht nur fürs Internet interessant. Kraft sponsort auch Cablevision VoDs oder andere. Der Deal Werbung gegen kostnelose Shows scheint auch beim VoD zu funktionieren.
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Prinzipiell können die Kabelanbieter mit der Fiberoptic technik nihct mithalten aber sie können sich einen respektablen vorsprung erarbeiten, weil sie schon jetzt triple play sinnvoll anbieten können.
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Now carried in 30 million homes, Current will announce a plan next month for online expansion. Current macht etwas Gewinn. Interessanterweise hatten sie alle richtigen Ideen nur das mit dem Internet nicht und so kam YouTube
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Die Kunden die sowohl eine Kableanscluss als auch einnen Warner Breitbandanschluss haben können ihre Videos und Bilder hochlanden. Diese werden von Warner gescreent und aschließend über einen digitalen VOD bereitgestelllt.
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$1.45 Mrd VoD Markt in den USA. Hauptproblem liegt in der kommunikation. Die Konsumenten wissen nicht dass sie VoD haben und können damit nicht umgehen. Digitales Kabel wird 2008 analoges Kabel überholen Sateltiten jagen Marktanteile ab.
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Verizon muss $700-$1,000 Pro Kunden ausgeben um dorthin die FiOS zu legen. Doppelt soviel wie AT&T. Verizon will so auch Triple Play anbieten, weil die Kunden da länger bleiben und nicht mehr wegwechseln. Lizenzierungsschwierigkeiten.
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Cabelanbietern haben die meisten HDTV subscriber: 5.5Mio der 7Mio HDTV Kunden. 20k-30k neue Kunden/Monat. 65Mio in 2010.Kunden wollen mehr als einen HDTV kanal.Bandbreiten Probleme für Internetanbieter 8Mbps.+3Mbps normal ...
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Nachdem Comcast den Dienstleister thePlatform gekauft hat planenen sie ein Internetportal für Videos und Fernsehinhalte die von den Konsumenten über den PC auf den Fernseher übertragen werden sollen.Damit tritt Comcast gegen alle anderen Cable anbieter
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Erklärung wie anstößger Content im Fernsehen in den USA behandelt wird und wie das Supreme Court dazu entscheidet.
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Mittels Muticast können in Zukunft mehr Free-TV Kanäle in den USA übertragen werden (Digitales TV ab 2009). Sie wollen aber auch ins Kabel über die digital must carry rule. Um die hohen Investitionen zurück zu holen. Wurde schlecht Kommuniziert.
