"TV Everywhere" articles

Recently, Western Digital unveiled its first line of wireless home networking products, designed specifically to accelerate movies, video and gaming, delivering a premium HD entertainment experience. With the My Net family of powerful and user friendly home networking products, WD released its FasTrack™ technology. FasTrack detects entertainment traffic on the network and forwards it to gaming consoles, media players, smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, computers and other Wi-Fi connected...

By Jim O'Neill, Research Analyst, Parks Associates Making content discovery easy for the consumer was a cinch when there were just a handful of channels from which to choose. But as channel counts rose to dozens, then hundreds, and now thousands with the increasing flow of professionally generated content online, it’s become anything but. That massive fragmentation has made it challenging for broadcasters to deliver the targeted audience advertisers increasingly are demanding....

Written by Brett L. Sappington, Director of Research Although Viaccess and Orca have been bedfellows for some time, the recently announced merger of the two companies highlights a trend among CA/DRM providers. As the multiscreen/TV Everywhere battle among solution providers has grown, content security providers have either been the precipitators or targets of vertical integration into full-featured multiscreen solutions. Irdeto acquired Cloakware and moved to add content management...

Written by Brett L. Sappington, Director of Research Have you ever had one of those moments where you stop yourself and say, "Self, that...is... really ...cool?" Often, this experience ends with my wife removing my access to credit cards, the Internet, and 1-800 numbers in the name of fiscal responsibility (darn this recession). While The Cable Show  showcases a variety of interesting technologies, a few stood out during the past few days: Downloading...

By: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst With the Cable Show taking place in Boston this week, there have been a number of announcements regarding "TV Everywhere," multi-screen pay-TV strategies, and the role of connected consumer electronics such as smart TVs in delivering a new video experience to consumers. Recently, there were a number of very good articles written by John Moulding at Videonet  about how pay-TV providers are working within the...

Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director, Video Services Product Development and Management, Verizon, is participating as a speaker at the upcoming CONNECTIONS™ at TIA, June 5-7 at the Gaylord Texan. Ms. Krishnaswamy will participate in the session “The Next Steps in TV Everywhere," Tuesday, June 5, 4:00 P.M. Approximately one-third of U.S. broadband households now watch Internet video on a TV or PC, and approximately 25% view it on tablets and mobile devices. The interactive panel...

Join us at APPNATION NYC + APPNATION TV 3.0 SUMMIT - the place where the app and connected device ecosystem meets, combined with social TV apps. The signs are everywhere. Mobile technology is taking over the world of interconnected computing, spurring development of an apps universe that is the rightful Internet successor to the World Wide Web. APPNATION is the first conference to focus entirely on the business of apps and their transformative impact on consumers and enterprise...

Written by Brett L. Sappington, Director of Research As part of our work on the recently released TV Everywhere: Growth, Solutions, and Strategies (2nd Ed.) - North America report, we analyzed consumer survey data to find actual awareness and use of TV Everywhere services among subscribers of US and Canadian operators. We found that awareness among subscribers was under 25% for most operators and usage was under 12%. A surprisingly small figure given the attention and...