Verizon Creates Support Service For Global Multiscreen Market
January 30, 2014 – With acquisition of two key solutions providers, Verizon’s Digital Media Services group has put together what it hopes will be a major new force in end-to-end distribution of...
View ArticleFalling Prices, Asia Push and Other Factors Buoy Upbeat Consensus on 4K
February 14, 2014 – Amid all the hype and demos at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show touting 4K there was no better place to get a feel for what key players really think about the potential and...
View ArticleIBM Takes Aggressive Stance With Revamped Cloud Service
February 20, 2014 – IBM, having positioned itself for a more aggressive approach to public cloud services, is taking steps that should make it a viable competitor for business from service providers...
View ArticleBurst of Activity Underscores Inevitability of Broadband TV
March 5, 2014 – The shift to ubiquitous availability of live TV content on connected devices has reached flood tide with significant expansions in channel lineups for out-of-home access on MVPD apps...
View ArticleSDN Upends Encoding Debate
April 29, 2014 –After a long-running debate between suppliers of proprietary hardware and software-based systems over which type of platform is best, a universal move to support virtualization of the...
View ArticleCloud Middleware Provider Sees Ways to Crack Crowded Market
May 1, 2014 – Standing out in the crowded multiscreen pay TV cloud supplier space is getting harder by the day, but executives at Israel-based Comigo believe their successes abroad augur well for their...
View ArticleTV Nets’ Ambitions Grow With Increasing Use of Cloud
Just how aggressively are broadcast and cable TV networks pursuing the use of the Internet to expand their audiences and programming options? Executives at Microsoft’s Azure Media Services, which is...
View ArticleTV Networks Find Viable Path To Meeting Multiscreen Goals
July 28, 2014 – For TV networks caught in the squeeze between losing money on multiscreen initiatives and losing out in the Internet media stampede there’s an increasingly urgent need to find...
View ArticleTV Networks Gain New Support For Aggressive Online Strategies
August 4, 2014 – TV programmers’ efforts to drive bigger audiences to their online offerings are likely to gain momentum with support from a new partnership between multiscreen supply-chain power...
View ArticleTVE Uncertainties Mandate Prudent Expansion Strategies
August 8, 2014 – Now that pay TV networks and distributors are fully immersed in pursuing online business models, calibrating how fast and far to go has become a huge challenge for strategists as they...
View ArticleImagine Says It’s Ready to Take Leading Role in TV Everywhere
August 15, 2014 – Gearing up for next month’s International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, Imagination Communications is set to make the case that it has put together a unique end-to-end...
View ArticleMarket Signals ABR QA Is Viable with Right Solutions
August 21, 2014 – Now that achieving quality assurance sufficient to the needs of an effective multiscreen service strategy has become a top priority for service providers the question operators must...
View ArticleEnvivio Cloud Platform Stirs Demand for SDN Solutions
September 8, 2014 – Can the emergence of an end-to-end virtualized cloud solution anchored by deep expertise in video processing persuade pay TV distributors the time has come to pursue a much lower...
View ArticleAbundance of Options Muddles Multicast Issue
October 21, 2014 – Despite rising concern over the bandwidth-consuming impact of unicast streaming of IP video, uncertainties about how to deal with the problem remain unresolved amid an outpouring of...
View ArticleAs LTE Broadcast Tests Another Idea Bears Watching
As mobile operators weigh whether to bet big on LTE Broadcast technology the challenges ahead may soon prompt many to take a hard look at an altogether different approach to mitigating the impact of...
View ArticleMid-Market MSOs’ Pay TV Angst Triggers Plans for Radical Action
December 17, 2014 – Foment in the mid-to-low-tier cable MSO ranks is moving rapidly from angry reaction to escalating programming costs to serious exploration of broadband-based business models that...
View ArticleTurnkey Cloud Services Promise Faster Track in IP TV Migration
January 29, 2015 – As MVPDs in growing numbers embrace cloud-based solutions to take some of the pain and costs out of various steps in the evolution to next-generation video services, the prospects...
View ArticleVyve Broadband Illuminates Realistic Path to Rural Growth
February 23, 2015 – With what might best be described as cautious exuberance, mid-tier MSO Vyve Broadband is pursuing an ambitious development agenda that could serve as a lesson in rural broadband...
View ArticleCoupling HDR with UHD Sets Parameters for Next-Gen Pay TV
March 30, 2015 – Notwithstanding the disruptive intrusion of high dynamic range (HDR) technology into distributors’ preparations for Ultra HD services, the next-generation TV picture is starting to...
View ArticleConfusion over How to Manage UHD/HDR Interplay Intensifies
May 1, 2015 – With ever greater exposure in industry circles, high dynamic range video technology is driving a rapidly building consensus among some service providers that HDR needs to be made the...
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