IPTV Commentary Archive
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It’s Time for the Anti-Set-top Box Version 3.0
By Danny Briere
This is the generation that has cut the landlines and moved to mobile phones. And this generation that thinks nothing whatsoever of watching a show on Hulu.com...
What I learned at TelcoTV
By Carol Wilson
Conflicted is suddenly the word that comes to mind when I think about telcos getting into video, especially after spending two days in Anaheim at TelcoTV....
Who watches TV on TV anymore?
By Rich Karpinski
That’s indeed the billion-dollar question as telecom service providers enter today’s video arena — a market that spans cable, satellite, the Internet and mobile devices....
One step closer to mobile TV
By Sarah Reedy
This year’s TelcoTV conference — kicking off today in Anaheim, Calif. — has service providers looking beyond the living room....
TV Ads-Do They Measure Up?
By Daniel Chu
Advertisers across media are seeking unprecedented levels of campaign measurement and ad tracking....
By Carol Wilson
By Carol Wilson
This week’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York that allows Cablevision to go forward with its network-based digital video recorder trial is the worst possible news for telcos trying to offer their own video services....
Transforming IPTV from “Me too” to “Me want!”
By Len Feldman and Steve Hawley
Those of us who monitor the IPTV industry for a living are often asked, "Will this finally be the year of IPTV?" ...
Bandwidth: How much is enough?
By Jonathan Hurd, Altman Vilandrie & Company
Verizon’s June announcement that it will expand availability of its 50 megabit per second (Mbps) FiOS broadband service has prompted some to ask, “How much bandwidth could a household need?” To estimate the demand, various analysts have attempted to calculate a household’s future maximum peak bandwidth requirements...
Experiential services offer variety of revenue opportunities
By Maribel D. Lopez, Lopez Research
Facing new market realities, service providers understand growth will not come from adding subscribers, but from finding new ways to monetize existing relationships...
Has IPTV hit the tipping point?
By Carol Wilson
Microsoft’s announcement today of new ecosystem partners for its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV system is intended to underscore the faster pace at which IPTV is being rolled out globally. And in fact there has been steady expansion of this service, especially in Europe and Asia...
Open wide and say, “uh, no”
By Vince Vittore, The Yankee Group
Paired with recent a recent demonstration of Google’s Android platform at its I/O Conference, one could assume we’re on the verge of who new world of openness where networks and devices are no longer joined at the hip and applications roam free like the deer and antelope of yore. Then again, one would be wrong....
IPTV -- The great divide
By Carol Wilson
AT&T is completely sold on IPTV, and is singing its praises to anyone who will listen. But Qwest Communications and a handful of others aren't convinced. So what’s an independent telco to do? ...
DPI vs. P2P
By Carol Wilson
A few years ago, peer-to-peer traffic was well on its way to becoming the bane of Internet service providers’ existence. The machine-to-machine nature of the traffic enabled P2P users to be constantly consuming available bandwidth, without paying anything extra, and ISPs weren’t prepared...
Net ushers in experiential TV
By Maribel D. Lopez
The past five years have presented major changes in the TV industry such as extensive, free video-on-demand catalogs and time-shifting with digital video recorders...
Meeting the market
By Carol Wilson
Inside the telecom industry, we tend to focus on big technology trends and innovations that ultimately have little relevance in the consumer or business worlds...
Shoe on the other foot
By Carol Wilson
When the cable companies decided to get into VoIP, they didn’t go into the marketplace touting the new technology they’d discovered and trying to attract new customers that way. Instead, they called it “digital phone service” and focused on its low cost, a long list of features and reliability. The approach paid off...
The bandwidth requirement conundrum
By Geoff Burke, Calix
Bandwidth prognostications today focus on only the stream side of the equation -- adding up the total bandwidth requirements of all streams concurrently supported by the multi-service experience delivered. What these prognosticators forget, however, is that files are another matter...
Content still clueless on DVR
By Jonathan Blum
For all the sympathy content producers have tried to elicit it's still remarkable to see how little they respect the consumer’s time, money and intelligence. Get this: We no longer own the pay-per-view movies we pay for and record on our digital video recorders...
Knight Rider, ad writer
By Ed Gubbins
The latest “Battle for the American Couch Potato” report reiterates in its conclusions the same dire warning that’s been rung out in recent years regarding the future of video advertising: It’s got to get sneakier, it’s got to blur the line between advertising and programming, it’s got to insinuate itself ever more intimately into video content so that we can’t fast-forward through commercials anymore...
IPTV's DVR strategy is flawed
By Danny Briere
IPTV is reaching the mainstream, but there's still a big gap between what providers are offering and what consumers really want. A great example is the...
The consumer view
By Carol Wilson
Whether you invent new technology, deploy new technology or just write about it, like me, it's hard not to get caught up in the newness of it...
Net neutrality: Here we go again
By Carol Wilson
Congress is once again threatening to implement Net neutrality in order to prevent service providers from offering tiered content distributions services...
Survival of the fittest -- Carriers need partners not vendors
By Robert W. Pullen, Tellabs
Providers need more today than just high-quality infrastructure. In today’s climate of “what have you done for me lately,” the litmus test for choosing an infrastructure vendor is not only equipment, but also services that deliver quantifiable benefits to the top and bottom lines...
Converging on an opportunity
By Paul Mankiewich, Alcatel-Lucent
As an industry, we see signs that the convergence of the Web, wireline and wireless networks is well underway. The next logical step is the delivery of content to all three screens – TV, PC and mobile device. What will this mean for the people who will use the services?...
Clueless on IPTV quality?
By Carol Wilson
Service providers used to build quality networks for voice services. Then they began offering data and needed to guarantee a quality of service for that data. Now, as they offer video, they need to guarantee a quality of experience for the video consumer...
