"TV Everywhere" articles

Yesterday, the news was that Warner Bros. was expanding catch-up TV services in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, Turner Broadcasting announced that it was working with Brightcove to roll an online video services in the U.K., Spain, France, Italy, Germany and other countries throughout Europe. Turner will use the Brightcove platform to expand its advertising-supported online video services and to introduce new programming on its web portals. The first sites to launch with the platform...

There's news on this from both the BBC and the Digital TV Group . SeeSaw offers 3,000 hours of content Channel 4, and Five, and BBC Worldwide programming. It's different from the BBC iPlayer in that it is ad-supported. SeeSaw joins the individual online catch-up TV services from the following broadcasters: * BBC iPlayer: Averaging five million unique users per week (with more than 114 million requests recorded in January ), BBC iPlayer content is available for viewing on more...

Warner Bros. has launched a branded online catch-up TV service in Poland. WarnerTV is available on the Onet.pl Internet platform. Shows such as The Big Bang Theory , Gossip Girl , Friends , ER , and Fringe will be available shortly after their U.S. airing. The Polish service follows on the heels of similar European offerings in the U.K., The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and France.

The press release that we issued a couple of weeks ago on potential of cord-cutting has generated some good feedback. Most recently, Jim Louderback, the CEO of Revision3 , wrote a column on the GigaOm site that offered some critique of the analysis that we presented from our recently-completed All Eyes on Video study. Jim's column covered topics such as the margin of error of our surveys and raised questions about whether we were able to include the viewpoint of consumers age 18-24 who,...

Digital Media II is a primary consumer survey measuring the adoption and use of existing platforms and gauges the market potential for future platforms including digital cameras, TVs, digital photo frames, and Blu-ray players. Key Topics include the following: - 3D TV - The market potential for "slate" and tablet PCs - Triggers for adoption, usage scenarios, and hardware configuration for emerging platforms - Hardware configurations used for consuming Internet video...

This was interesting news, particularly since we completed a Webcast today where we talked about the very dymanic market for supplying Web capabilities to the consumer electronics market. Today, Nagravision announced that it was partnering with Samsung Electronics America to provide TV applications an interactivity to Web-connected Samsung products such as connected TVs and Blu-ray players. It's interesting that a company like Nagravision - which has a strong foundation in providing...

Broadcast & Cable reported on Consumer Reports' tests of Web-connected TVs and Blu-ray players and devices such as broadband-connected TiVos and game consoles. It sounds like the reviews were generally favorable - Consumer Reports indicates that video quality was pretty decent. One of the key conclusions from them is for consumers to take a closer looks at the connected Blu-ray players, as they will obviously be lower-cost alternatives to a full-blown connected TV. That makes sense -...

There was an interesting article cited in the Minneapolis Star Tribune indicating a move by console manufacturers to expand their consoles beyond the video download boxes they have already become to host more original programming. Some examples cited in the article: * Microsoft is testing a remake of the TV game show "1 vs. 100," where players on the Xbox LIVE network compete and are represented by 3D avatars. * Sony is pushing two videogame-themed shows "Qore"...