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# Future broadband - Policy approach to next generation access [pdf] Full Print Version # Future broadband - Policy approach to next generation access [pdf] Presentation Slides : Dougal Scott - 26 September 2007
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The U.K. market for online TV will be worth £181 million ($362 million) by 2011 -- but the growth of movie downloads is expected to be much slower. These are the findings of a survey by Screen Digest, which forecasts that music will continue to dominate
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The YouTube-UK music deal will focus on high-traffic videos. Andrew Shaw, of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, told the Financial Times that his organization will screen the top 5 to 10 percent of clips. “The long-tail is not worth calculating,” he said. Another
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This is the fourth of Ofcom’s annual reports to focus on trends and developments in the UK’s communications market, with the aim of providing a context for decision-making by Ofcom, as well as by commercial and public sector organisations. The communi
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Their arguments sound hollow — on one hand they urge subscribers to sign-up for faster download plans, and pay premium prices. And yet, they complain when subscribers finally find an application that puts their web speed to work.
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ntellectual Property is a critical component of our present and future success in the global economy. The UK's economic competitiveness is increasingly driven by knowledge-based industries, especially in manufacturing, science-based sectors and the creati
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It said that the costof advertising on television fell by 6.5 per cent in 2006 and in the current year is predicted to fall a further 1.4 per cent. The fast-changing situation complicates the picture for various television companies as they try to balanc
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Catch-up on the last 7 days of BBC Television... on your computer BBC iPlayer Beta is in the final stages of testing and we're now opening it up to even more people around the UK
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Qualitative interviews with editors and executives at UK national and regional newspapers revealed experimentation with online business models. All of the selected web publications offered their most popular news content for free in an attempt to maxim
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Thinkbox is the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters - Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky media, Turner Broadcasting and Viacom Brand Solutions. We work with the UK marketing community with a single ambition: to help customers ge
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BBC iPlayer is far more than a standalone application. Later this year, it will become widely accessible across bbc.co.uk, as well as via links from YouTube and a number of other potential distribution partners.
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Over 80% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television services. That is over twenty million homes. Most of the growth comes from Freeview. Nearly two million digital terrestrial television receivers were sold in the first quarter of
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Last week, BBC.co.uk ranked #14 among All Categories of websites with 0.82% of all UK Internet visits compared to YouTube's #25 ranking with 0.81% of UK Internet visits. The gap between the two websites is closing rapidly. Last week, BBC had a 1.6% lead o
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he study also reported on the most popular streaming sites. Of the 1.98 billion streams that were initiated in the U.K. in April 2007, 38 percent or 608.1 million were initiated at Google Sites (which include YouTube.com). Rounding out the top 5 were Yaho
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UK broadcaster Channel 4 has launched a premium and ad-supportedmusic video download service. Boasting a library of over 20,000 videos, the offering is little more than a link through to Stockholm-based MusicBrigade, a European music site that earlier thi
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-- New technology: A new EPG will send reminders via SMS and email. Links to the media player will be displayed on every web page. -- Live streaming: ITV.com will simulcast the network’s four commercial TV channels. -- 30-day catch-up: The entire sche
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iPlayer will make TV programs available online for up to 7 days Within these 7 days some TV shows can be downloaded and stored but will expire after 30 days. In addition to downloads shows can be streamed instantly online
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The BBC has been given approval for its on-demand services, allowing it to deliver programmes at any time via the internet and cable TV. There are now several ways of getting tailor-made television piped into your home - but what do the main players offe
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Virgin Media, the new name for NTL:Telewest, will launch an interactive cable channel, extend its reach over broadband into non-cable areas and promote its television, telephone and broadband services in stores in an attempt to provide credible competitio
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HBO is launching a subscription video-on-demand service in the U.K., the first time it will be available as a stand-alone branded destination in Blighty.Rolling out this spring, service will be carried by competing British digital platforms Virgin Media,
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The battle to offer services to the digital consumer is fiercely competitive with companies as diverse as Virgin Media, Sky, BT, Orange and Carphone Warehouse offering different "bundles" of TV, broadband and telephony.While Virgin is currently the only c
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Not that this was going to be an issue after Ofcom set the path earlier this month, but BBC Trust gave initial approval to the BBC’s on-demand plans. Under the proposals, viewers will be able to watch popular programs online or download them to a PC up
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Welcome to 4oD With hundreds of hours of TV, films and music to download, you can watch what you want, when you want.
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The Essex band -- brothers Ollie and Stu Cooper and Joe Murphy -- have built a fanbase through the Internet and concerts. They have yet to sign a contract with a record label.
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An announcement from British Sky Broadcasting last week that it had sold more than two million digital video recorders demonstrated the international appeal of a technology that wrests control of television schedules out of the hands of broadcasters and
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BT's most basic broadband package BT Total Broadband Package 1, for example, has a 2GB monthly 'usage guideline'. This would be reached after 20 hours of viewing. The software is also likely to transfer data even when not being used. The Venice system is
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17% were already watching on-demand programmes on their television sets. Some 42% of those already viewing video-on-demand reported watching less television as a result. The same percentage believe that traditional television scheduling will no longer ex
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Channel 4 is the first major broadcaster to make the majority of its commissioned output available for download over broadband with its new 4oD service, although it will only be accessible to users in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
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· Broadcaster to use email and net phone technology · Video-sharing website will provide access to YouTube Google is looking to move into television advertising through a tie-up with BSkyB, announced yesterday, that will see the broadcaster use the co
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The BBC is planning to launch an international version of its NewsPlayer, the sister download service to its iPlayer, in the new year which will carry ads from April. From January visitors to bbcnews.com will be able to view reports from the BBC World int
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The initial rollout of the home entertainment service - which combines video-on-demand functionality and Freeview channels - is likely to be low level, with a big push planned for spring next year. IPTV subscribers will reach just 29.5m worldwide in 2010
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BSkyB is rebranding its Sky by Broadband video download service as Sky Anytime and is adding Sky One shows and pay-per-view premium movies to the programming line-up.
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The programme where viewers provide the news through pictures, videos and stories. With Richard Bilton and Laura Jones.
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Channel 4 in the United Kingdom is to make most of its programming available online for 30 days after transmission. Users will be able to download all programmes commissioned by the channel for 99 pence an episode. Selected archive programmes and films wi
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This is a big step in the user-generated content space: BBC will start paying for viewer contributed content, but only for material that is “particularly editorially important or unique”,“In return for payment we may negotiate an assignment of copyr
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After all, it is a small matter of UK TV landscape being redrawn: British Sky Broadcasting Group, run by James Murdoch, has acquired a 17.9 percent stake in UK broadcaster ITV, which has been the target of bids by pay TV rival NTL and others over the last
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Innovation Wednesdays
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The BBC iPlayer is clearly designed to compete with iTunes and is, in plain terms, a new platform. It is essential that all broadcasters and content providers are given access on a fair and equitable basis to present their content on the iPlayer."
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Freewire TV is a new service from Inuk Networks in the United Kingdom that will deliver broadcast quality television channels over multicast broadband networks, offering multichannel choice to the ‘digitally disenfranchised’ who are currently unable t
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Fame TV hopes to create a TV channel based entirely on user generated content. Unlike regular passive TV, Fame TV allows for interactivity through txt and picture messages from your cell phone and the ability to vote for your favorite content.
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Sony Pictures Television has extended its partnership with Arts Alliance Media to launch a download-to-own deal for 40 movies through LOVEFiLM and AOL in the UK this week. This follows the download-to-rent deal between Sony and AAM earlier this year
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The BT network was simply not designed to deliver video, and does not support multicasting, making it uneconomic to distribute live television channels. For this reason, the BT Vision service will combine broadcast programming delivered over the air throu
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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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Just over 70% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television — a total of 17.7 million homes.Analogue terrestrial reception still accounts for 57% of all television sets, which represents a challenge for digital switchover, or an opp
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The chapter on IPTV begins: “IPTV is streamed television on the Internet.” vs. “the delivery of digital television and other audio and video services over broadband data networks using the same basic protocols that support the internet"
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User-generated content websites such as YouTube, Flickr and MySpace have been the biggest Internet success stories of the year so far, according to new research.
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YouTube is the fastest growing online brand in the UK, increasing the number of its users by nearly 500% in the first six months of 2006. With 3.6 million unique users in July, YouTube is used by more than one in eight internet users in the UK.
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Most people gave priority to the BBC’s TV services, and would choose to allocate $11.30 per month to TV, $3.76 to radio and $9.41 to a package of proposed new services that include a 7-day catch-up service,
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The BBC has applied to its governors for formal approval to launch a BBC iPlayer to provide its audio and video programming over the internet within in the UK. 7 Tage On Demand Programm aus dem Fernsehen
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On-demand archive programming will account for 25% of all TV viewing in the UK by 2009, a BBC boss has said. BBC will sich ein weiteres Standbein mit der Auswertung seiner Arichve erarbeiten. Besonders der Longtail effekt soll greifen.
