Articles - ipTv
Single Play to Replace Triple Play?
Disintermediation, the removal of intermediaries from any value chain, has been a greater issue in virtually every industry segment since the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web. That obviously will apply to the multichannel video entertainme...
Internet Video: Where's the Pony?
New availability of HDTVs with direct broadband Internet connections, as well as content services optimized for direct delivery to the TV, or Web applications optimized for operation directly on TV screens, were a clear trend at this year’s Consumer...
Flipping Three-Screen Strategy on Its Head
There’s no doubt about the drive by cable and telco providers to make a business of content on at least three screens—TV, PC and mobile. Neither is there much doubt of the desire to build businesses that can source video content from any input...
Video Has ISPs Anxious
What a difference an application makes. Video over the Internet has had a profound effect on the world. It has made some content companies very successful, end users very happy and a lot of ISPs miserable. Someone always has to get stuck in the middle. T...
When Will IPTV and On-Demand Eclipse Linear Video?
On-demand video is the sort of development that terrifies everybody with an important role in the current value chain. It also is a trend that grows almost daily. But a nearly complete shift to on-demand as the dominant way consumers access video might...
Digital Home Field Advantage
Now that IPTV rollouts are hitting a stride, telco video appears to have some cable executives looking over their shoulders. That’s not to say telcos are exactly nipping at the heels of cable companies. After all, Verizon and AT&T combined now count...
Internet Video Explodes
Not only did consumption of Internet video explode last year, about $630 million worth of revenue was generated as well, up from $302 million in 2005, according to researchers at The Yankee Group. Download and advertising account for most of the revenue,...
IPTV, Online Video Both Growing
Any responsible telco video executive has to keep tabs on two different ways of getting entertainment video to end users: linear IPTV offerings that largely mimic cable TV service and online video. So far, it appears all forms are growing. Verizon Commun...
IPTV Gets Hot in Europe
U.S. telcos might still be a bit concerned about fiber to the home and IPTV projects. But that isn’t stopping European competitors and incumbents from charging ahead. Iliad, using the retail brand name Free, offers a triple play package including...
Online Video Lean Back
More than half to nearly three-quarters of Internet users now view videos over the Internet on a fairly regular basis, suggest a handful of recent surveys, and it’s far from just teens and young adults on YouTube behind the meteoric growth of stream...
