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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Internet Videos schaden vor allem Kabel und Satelliten betreibern. Diese versuchen die Kunden mit VoD und premiumfeatures zu halten. Außerdem stellen sie selbst immer mehr Videos auf ihre Seiten und Kooperation mit Inetanbietern können sie so wieder Zus
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Das Dilemma zwischen Bundel und ala Carte Kabel etwas aufugeschlüsselt. Dazu werden die Hauptpunkte zweier Studien aufgeführt, die gegen die FCC Aussage "Konsumenten wollen ala Carte Kabel" sprechen.
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HDTV wird das Fernsehen retten. Downloads (1 vs 8 Mbs) werden es nicht auf HDTV schaffen genausowenig wie IPTV (3vs10Mbs). Die Bandbreite nach Hause wächst nicht so schnell wie die notwendige Bandbreite.Analoge Programme nutzen 38mps. Alte Shows werden W
