OTT Leaders Suffer High Churn Rates August 14^th 2015 - 08:30 AM

Online video providers may be gaining subscribers from established pay TV operators but they are not having it all their own way with high churn rates among themselves. This applies to leaders such as Netflix and Amazon as well as smaller OTT players, according to the latest OTT Video Market…

Live Video Over IP: More Confusion Than Clarity August 4^th 2015 - 08:01 AM

Just when I thought it was going to be safe to go in the water, out comes a survey and a statement that Live over IP is still 5 to 10 years away. Really?

Differentiating OTT Services July 23^rd 2015 - 08:09 AM

OTT services are taking off with increased rates of growth driven by more content, more devices, more subscribers and more advertisers. In the last 12 months alone, OTT has grown to $9-12 billion in global revenues, with $1.9 billion of those revenues coming from emerging markets, according to a report from PWC.…

Credential Sharing Costs US OTT Video Providers $500 Million A Year July 20^th 2015 - 06:09 AM

Sharing of passwords to services like Netflix and HBO Go among friends and family is costing the OTT video industry $500 million a year in the US alone, according to a report by Parks Associates. The report emphasizes that both content redistribution and credential sharing are growing as fast as the…

ATSC 3.0 Next-Gen TV Field Tests Show Positive Results July 12^th 2015 - 08:01 AM

Under a FCC experimental broadcast license, Tribune Broadcasting’s WJW-TV is providing a DTV transmitter, tower and 6-MHz channel for ATSC 3.0-related field testing in Cleveland. Field tests of key elements of ATSC 3.0 have been underway since mid-May by a collaboration of LG Electronics, Zenith R&D Lab and G…

Adventures in Broadcasting, Part 2: Say Hi to Wi-Fi July 6^th 2015 - 08:19 AM

IP video over Wi-Fi provided a solid new signal transport solution at a fraction of most wireless link costs. Wi-Fi was easy. The challenge was finding available devices to convert camera HDMI into IP for Wi-Fi transport, and decoders to convert IP back to HDMI for the production switcher.

Caution Still The Watchword Over 4k July 1^st 2015 - 02:01 PM

Ultra High Definition (UHD), or 4k as it’s also known, is now firmly established in the minds of broadcast professionals and viewers alike, even if far from being established in TV studios and the home.

Quality And Piracy Hold Back OTT Video Advertising June 19^th 2015 - 12:01 PM

Online video advertising is booming but would grow even faster if quality could be improved and the impact of piracy reduced. A company’s brand image can be tarnished through association with poor quality reproduction and also when ads end up being shown against pirated content,

Mobile Analytics Firms Target TV June 10^th 2015 - 01:55 PM

Pay TV operators and broadcasters struggling to measure viewing via mobile platforms could find help from firms specializing in analytics for wireless services. Birdstep of Sweden has signaled its intentions on this front by identifying video app and service providers as targets for the latest version of its analytics platform…

Desktop Still Dominates Long Form Online Viewing June 9^th 2015 - 08:33 AM

It is far too soon to write off the desktop as a major online video platform as it still accounts for twice as much viewing as tablets for long form content and four times more than smartphones, according to Adobe’s Digital Index (ADI).