Consumer
demand for media-rich home entertainment services is driving
innovation and new revenue opportunities in the set-top box
(STB) industry. Next-generation STBs will integrate video
content from multiple signal sources such as broadcast
television, premium video-on-demand and Internet-based services,
provide value-added capabilities like time-shifting, and allow
content to be distributed to a variety of viewing devices
including multi-room TV networks, personal computers, portable
media players and other mobile devices.
An Introduction to IPTV
Exterity
This white paper is written
for those who know very little, if anything, about IPTV. It
avoids the use of technical jargon while still explaining IPTV.
In this white paper:
What is IPTV?
How does IPTV compare to
traditional audio/visual (AV) solutions? And what are the
benefits?
Why organisations are adopting IPTV
Markets where IPTV is already being used
How it works
Network Provisioning Solution
Enhanced Telecommunications, Inc.
Large telephone companies and service bureaus supporting delivery of IPTV video services must provide centralized signal processing and system management to provide economy of scale. Centralized signal processing also simplifies the daily maintenance and operations of their many smaller and remote sites.
Broadband Applications Fueling Consumer Demand
Alcatel
Telcos
have a narrow window of opportunity in which to exploit their
interactive strengths against competitors. Technical advancements
have converged with consumer demand to provide meaningful
broadband applications consumers are both willing to pay for and
stay for. What will it take for telcos to win the broadband war
and secure new revenue streams? Four emerging broadband
applications provide incumbent telcos with renewed prospects to
retain valued customers: video, gaming, home networking, and audio
on demand.
IPTV/VoD The Great Content Adventure
Digital
TX
“The
problem is that they want the world, but they don’t want to pay
for it”, said the BBC executive sitting opposite me sipping on his
cappuccino. “They are all knocking on our door wanting all our
content for free, and it’s so difficult when they don’t understand
the costs involved and how this industry operates”. The reason I
started Digital TX Ltd was due to hearing this in conversation
more times than I care to remember.
IPTV/VoD
The Open 4th Platform
Digital
TX
Just when you thought the days of the digital TV “walled garden”
were over, this week Sky released its new “Sky Net” platform,
which is almost as imaginatively titled as the new service to be
released by the start-up “Aggregator” this year. It seems the
world is taking a giant leap backward to the days of web portals
and brand marketing that failed so dismally in the past. At the
least Aggregator’s service will use a broadband connection, as
Sky’s new train set is still firmly routed In the days of
signal-noise ratios of 33.3k dial-up modems.
Enabling The Future of Value-Added Services for IP
Inovaware
In the aggressive world of Internet services profits can be
elusive. The margins associated with basic access are not enough
to keep service providers in business anymore. Fortunately, the
dynamic evolution of the Internet has led to an influx of new
services, applications and technologies that are being brought to
the market and the availability of high-speed, always-on broadband
access has opened the door to new and exciting possibilities for
service providers and carriers.
H.264
& IPTV Over DSL
Intel
Telcos
face a growing challenge from their competitors in the cable
television operator and wireless telephone industries.
Metropolitan cable service operators (MSOs) offer new Internet
access and voice over IP (VoIP) telephone services— along with
digital video and television—that encroach on the market and
revenue of telcos. And consumers are choosing the convenience of
personal wireless telephones over traditional wireline service.
Preparing for the IPTV Future
Micronas
IPTV,
short for Internet Protocol Television, is a new method of
delivering and viewing television programming using an IP network
and high speed broadband access technology. More than simply a new
distribution and playback method, IPTV is poised to create an
entirely new mindset about the television experience. Whereas
current terrestrial broadcast television is the same content sent
continuously to all consumers’ homes, IPTV removes the fixed
television schedule. Similar to how information on the Internet
can be downloaded and viewed at any time, IPTV enables television
programming to be available whenever each individual consumer
demands it. In this way, each household can create their own
custom content and viewing schedule.
The Emerging Market for Networked Digital Television
Micronas
There are
vast amounts of personal digital content – photos, audio and
increasingly video files – that exist in homes around the globe.
Billions of these types of files are in stored computers, but
rarely shared or seen due to the inconvenience of gathering people
around a computer. However, several factors are converging to
fundamentally change this paradigm. Increasingly, more and more
consumers will find it just as easy to show digital photos to
friends, play audio files and download television programming in
their living room.
Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
Microsoft
Microsoft® TV is a family of software solutions that powers the
next generation of digital TV services across broadcast networks,
set-top boxes, and multimedia devices. New IPTV software from
Microsoft allows network operators to deliver compelling digital
TV services using today’s broadband technologies, along with voice
and data services.
Reaching the Unreachable Consumer: Advertising in the Digital Age
Parks
Associates
In the
digital age, consumers are inundated with different types of
advertising. A recent
Economist article claims that a consumer is exposed to more than
3,000 advertising messages everyday, explicitly and subtly.1 Are
they all relevant and meaningful to consumers? Probably not,
because consumers are running as far away from advertising and
marketing as they can. Anecdotal evidence and some hard data point
to a consumer base that is engaging more in what we call “tuning
in but turning off” behavior when it comes to traditional media
advertising.
Internet Protocol Television: A Survival Strategy or Revenue
Generator for Telcos?
Parks
Associates
Internet protocol television (IPTV) uses IP as the transport
platform to send video signals to the television via high-speed
Internet connections such as fiber-to-the-X connections (FTTx)
and/or next-generation digital subscriber lines (xDSL). With this
technology, consumers will be in complete control of what, when,
and where they watch television programming. Moreover, given the
versatility of the IP network, consumers will have the opportunity
to embrace a plethora of services that go beyond video signals.
Making TV Meaningful: Consumers and IPTV Applications
Parks
Associates
Internet
protocol television (IPTV) uses IP as the transport platform to
send video signals to the television via high-speed Internet
connections such as fiber-to-the-X connections (FTTx) and/or
next-generation digital subscriber lines (xDSL). With this
technology, consumers will be in complete control of what, when,
and where they watch television programming. Moreover, given the
versatility of the IP network, consumers will have the opportunity
to embrace a plethora of services that go beyond video signals.
The
IPTV Conundrum in Asia
Parks
Associates
Asia is
clearly at the forefront of the IPTV movement. Hong Kong leads the
world in IPTV penetration with over 500,000 subscribers,
substantial deployments have already been made in Taiwan and
Japan, and China, thanks to its size, is poised to dominate the
global market for IPTV equipment. Several factors make Asia
fertile ground for IPTV service. For one, many countries in the
region have robust broadband access networks boasting connection
speeds that are the envy of the world. The bulk of the
infrastructure needed for IPTV service is thus already in place.
Asian content providers have also been willing to fill those pipes
sooner rather than later.
Rescuing 3G With Mobile TV: Business Models and Monetizing 3G
Pyramid
Research
TV has been described as the “75-year-old killer application.” In
a context where Mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking for
the few applications which will finally accelerate 3G adoption, it
is understandable that Mobile TV would draw so much attention.
Still, the question remains: Could Mobile TV be the application
that finally lifts 3G? The answer is hardly certain.
Advantages of All-Digital Processing in DTV Waveform Monitors
Tektronix
How important is accuracy in your work?
There are limitations in the waveform monitor displays that
engineers, technicians, and artists use to examine digital video.
In this document, we will examine the primary waveform monitor
architectures, explain why what users see may not be what they
get, and explore the advantages of an all-digital approach.
The
Missing Link in File-Based Video: Automated QC
Tektronix
The broadcast world is going digital, and the digital
domain is expanding enormously for broadcasters. In the
past, 'digital' mean taking video from analog tape,
encoding it to MPEG-2 and then transmitting it. However,
the entire broadcasting landscape is getting more
complex with distribution via terrestrial, satellite,
cable, 'podcasts', HD-DVD, internet and movile; not just
standard definition but also HD (High Definition) and
many other resolutions to suit the new distribution
media. Content is being re-purposed at these different
resolutions and frame rates, using new codecs and at
different bit-rates, with different system requirements
for each.
