DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF), the organisation dedicated to promoting interoperable streaming of multimedia content over Internet, has released DASH-AVC/264, its recommended guidelines for deployment of the MPEG-DASH standard. The MPEG-DASH specification provides a standard method for streaming multimedia content over Internet by simplifying and converging delivery of IP video. This improves user experience while decreasing cost and simplifying workflow. The [...]
Based on forecasts for 97 countries, global pay TV revenues (subscription fees and on-demand content) will climb to $203 billion in 2018, up by $19 billion on 2012. According to the Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report the fast growth years for the sector are over, with annual growth hovering at below 2 per cent from 2015. Growth in 2013 [...]
Findings from Ooyala, the specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, indicate that tablet and mobile video have attained new consumption records, with live video dominating video-on-demand. The company’s Global Video Index Q1 2013 reveals key trends that are transforming linear television into a personalised, online, mobile experience. Similar to previous quarters, Q1 2013 data showed more people watching more [...]
Netflix has confirmed it will expand into the Netherlands later this year. Subscribers will be able to stream Hollywood fare, local TV series and Netflix originals like “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development” on TVs, game consoles, computers and mobile devices. Netflix says it currently has more than 36 million members in 40 countries watching more than one billion hours [...]
Online video company Fullscreen – the premier global YouTube network for creators and brands – has closed a round of Series A funding. The round was led by The Chernin Group along with Comcast Ventures and WPP. “Fullscreen’s mission is to empower a new generation of video creators to reach online audiences on a global scale,” said Fullscreen CEO and [...]
A+E Networks has confirmed the launch of A&E, History and Lifetime network apps are on Android’s latest operating systems for free from Google Play. “With the addition of our new Android apps, A+E Networks strengthens our leadership position in the rollout of TV Everywhere,” said Dan Suratt, Executive Vice President of Digital Media and Business Development, A+E Networks. “We are [...]
Scripps Networks Interactive has begun to roll out a suite of websites and mobile applications designed to give authenticated viewers access to Scripps’ popular lifestyle programming on a wider variety of platforms and devices, beginning with the Travel Channel, Food Network, HGTV, DIY Network and Cooking Channel websites. “The best way to meet growing consumer demand is to help them [...]
The creation, by Vision247 and Fora, of a high performance telco rated IPTV platform called Perception, delivering evolved services andseamless convergence across multiple platforms for Slovenian telecoms service provider T-2, has been shortlisted for an IBC2013 Innovation Award for content management. From more than 200 submissions, ten were selected to be recognised not just for new technology, but for its [...]
Almost a fifth (19 per cent) of online TV viewing is disrupted by unavoidable adverts, highlighting the increasingly intrusive nature of online advertising. The research, which was conducted by Adblock Plus in June 2013, surveyed 150 television programmes across the three terrestrial TV channels which feature advertising in the UK: 4oD, Demand 5 and ITV Player. Advert content varied among [...]
Three market-dominant HbbTV technology vendors have combined their knowledge and products to present a powerful new HbbTV toolbox for broadcasters at Broadcast Asia. The partnership between Screen, Icareus and Digisoft.tv has, claims Screen’s Head of Interactive Sales, Daimon Hall produced one of the most comprehensive solutions available to broadcasters to monetise content via HbbTV platforms. Hall said: “The HbbTV Toolbox, [...]
