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  • Blinkx Survey: Viewers Watching Web, not TV
  • 48 days ago
  • In contrast to my assertion that interactive TV was struggling, video search engine Blinkx claims that we are now a nation of interactive TV users. And although Blinkx doesn’t repeat the phrase, the same could presumably be said of the US, where it carried out similar research and found, guess what, very similar results: [...] ...
  • US DTV Transition: APTS survey adds to switch-off confusion
  • 49 days ago
  • My attention was drawn to the headline on the APTS’s recent news item More Than Half of Over-The-Air Consumers Prefer Free Broadcast Television After The DTV Transition. “More than half”… hmmm. These are people who presumably have resisted the temptation, unlike nearly 90% of American households, to start paying for a TV service from a [...] ...
  • Blu-ray Disc in 29.4 million homes this year
  • 51 days ago
  • Advance warning of a press release we are distributing later today: Blu-ray Disc’s victory in the recent format war with HD-DVD will propel the technology into 29.4 million homes worldwide by the end of 2008, according to the latest research published by Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices service. According to the report, “Blu-ray Devices: Forecasting Sales [...] ...
  • Off-the-shelf IPTV From Industria
  • 62 days ago
  • At the IPTV World Forum I spent some time with Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson, the founder and CEO of Industria. Gudjon is an Icelandic entrepreneur and Industria is his umpteenth company since he first founded Oz Communications in 1991. Industria now has around 80 employees and offers IPTV solutions to service providers, mostly smaller companies or [...] ...
  • IPTV’s ARPU Challenge
  • 64 days ago
  • At the IPTV World Forum today, I chaired a panel during a session on IPTV ARPUs. The preceding presentations had demonstrated how difficult it is to stay focused on the topic of user revenues without drifting into the complexities of network architecture or exciting new service concepts (that users may or may not actually want [...] ...

 



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