Blog articles from 09/2011

Ooyala announced that the venture arm of Motorola Mobility is a new investor in the company’s cross-platform technology, called Ooyala Everywhere, which helps publishers deliver professional video across mobile devices, connected TVs and browsers. Ooyala Everywhere also allows publishers to monetize videos through rich media ads, subscriptions, and pay-per-view options. Motorola is particularly interested in this multi-screen video publishing experience, and shares a common vision with...

Please join NARM and Parks Associates Thursday, September 15th from 4-5 p.m. CT. Use the code 'webinar-100' to join for free. The “cloud” is a hot topic for digital media industry players – and consumers. The movement of content, particularly music, into the cloud is impacting every market aspect from new business model development to delivery technologies to altered consumption patterns and ownership concepts. Currently this migration is creating more questions than...

Accedo , the leading enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, has announced that it has reached a significant milestone of 20 million apps used the latest 12 months. Accedo provides applications, both through its own app store solutions and through application platforms from all major TV device manufacturers. Among Accedo’s applications is Funspot©, the most widely deployed TV game service, as well as video on demand apps, live TV apps, news and information, social media apps, to...

In advance of the IBC 2011 conference , Parks Associates released new research today revealing consumers in Western Europe value multidevice access to recorded TV programs over other new video services, including access to live TV. Given a choice of new TV features, including 3DTV, online video access, and multiscreen services, 47% of broadband households in Western Europe’s largest countries selected viewing recorded programs on any Internet-connected device as one of their...

Mobile data revenues are becoming more important as voice ARPU and revenue decline. With voice service commoditized, carriers are developing high-priced, data-inclusive premium mobile service bundles to create new revenue streams and foster differentiation. The growing consumer appetite for on-the-go solutions is also driving the development and adoption of more intelligent, highly functional mobile handsets. In 2010, smartphone shipments reached almost 300 million units worldwide,...

Set-top boxes have been enabled with the likes of EBIF, tru2way and MPEG-4 for the past few years in anticipation of bigger, better services from cable operators. There are also the hybrid boxes with both QAM tuners and IP capabilities, as well as the HD DVRs. While HD boxes are almost table stakes these days, the latest generation of boxes are also geared up with MoCA and Ethernet ports for home networking and more memory and processing power to reach out to the Internet. Set-top boxes...

Fresh standards are being established for smart TVs as television manufacturers and service providers cater to increasing consumer demand for internet-delivered content and apps in the living room. At this month’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Sony is to demonstrate a simpler version of the Google TV service, being made available next year outside the US for the first time, while LG, Philips and Sharp announced the first alliance of TV makers to establish common...

Comcast is charting a new course with its recent announcement that it’s dynamically inserting ads into video-on-demand, but even bigger dynamic ad insertion plans for VOD are afloat. After tweaking the network architecture, Canoe Ventures started testing DAI with vendors last year in its lab. A CableLabs interop earlier this year brought the company together with more vendors in the ecosystem to make sure the physical requirements and feature set would be the same in a field setting....