HBO needs to keep its content exclusive, but provide better online access for non-cable subscribers. This article comments on HBO co-president Eric Kessler's view of exclusive content. Kessler says that it’s highly unlikely that HBO will ever stream any of their programming on Netflix or other aggregators. He views Netflix and Hulu and other services as competition, and the notion of using these services to stream HBO content as bad economics. 
Broadband customers are paying for services that are more than 40% slower than advertised, with thousands complaining that they are being short-changed by their internet service providers. 
Advertising plays the same role in your media diet that vegetables play in your regular diet; most of us would prefer to skip that course and go straight to dessert. But, just like veggies, advertising plays an important role in sustaining a body; in this case, a diverse body of content. Ed Note: A response to the previous post. 
A report on behalf of the European Commission has found that while video on demand is growing in importance it still only represents 1% of total TV revenues..
LG Electronics (LG) announced the beta opening of LG Cloud service on May 1 with the aim of providing seamless connectivity and streaming access to all digital content across various electronic devices. Although cloud is today's hottest IT buzzwords, LG Cloud is the first that allows users to manage and consume all types of content on "three screens" which includes Android smartphones, PCs and smart TVs (including but not limited to CINEMA 3D models) without a separate set-top box. Ed Note - if i want to see "mad men" I need an LG tablet, if I want to see catchup of my TV channel, I need a samsung? 
Verizon, the U.S. telco and one of the most successful IPTV providers in the world, has made one of the clearest indications of any major Pay TV operator that it would like to work more closely with the CE industry to reduce the number of set-top boxes it deploys. Speaking after the Connected TV Summit last week, Brian Whitton, Executive Director at the company, made it clear that he believes it is a realistic goal to offer an IPTV service through an app for second and third rooms but continue to rely on set-top boxes where there are no connected TV devices present. However, this relies on major CE vendors becoming true partners and working with platform operators to share the ongoing support and customer care burden. 
Don’t try to pawn off the argument to Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen that “catch-up” viewing of previous seasons on Netflix, Amazon and iTunes augments current-campaign ratings for shows like Mad Men. Speaking to investors Monday morning to discuss Dish’s first-quarter earnings report, Ergen said that digital distribution of shows including Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead is a key factor as to why Dish and series network AMC aren’t able to come to terms on a new carriage deal. 
AppleInsider got ahold of the note JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote to investors. Its research says a poor economy means don’t expect an Apple TV in your living room this year or next. 
What happens when your TV and your Internet merge? No one knows exactly what that will look like, but it’s easy enough to assume a bunch of new businesses will be created. 
The TV campaigns for Google+ are getting better and better, and the most recent one, which appears to be airing in the UK, tells the story of a man and shows the product in action. 
The satellite operator’s Satellite Monitor report for 2011 found that 84 million TV homes in Europe used DTH as their primary TV reception mode, a rise of 22% in four years. Terrestrial TV services were received by 79.4 million homes, down 5% on 2010, while cable services were delivered to 69.2 million homes, a decrease of 3%. IPTV services saw a 33% increase in homes, but accounted for just 16 million in total. 
Blip is geting rid of more than half of its distribution partners, including a number of Smart TV platforms like Boxee, TiVo, Samsung and Vizio. Blip explained its video producers that it simply didn't make any revenue with any of these platforms. 
In 2011, worldwide TV shipments fell for the first time after six consecutive years of growth, according to NPD DisplaySearch.
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What is television? Historically, its definition was more or less set in stone. A television set was a very particular type of device, which served as the hub of audio-visual entertainment in a given household. 
French media authority CSA has now officially declared the end of mobile TV. The CSA will now use part of the frequency spectrum for the six new HD channels, while the remainder will be used for a new project, B2M (Broadcast Mobile Multimedia). Ed Note: B2M is led by TDF (the largest European Broadcast Network Operator) and uses Expway mobile broadcast middleware and servers at its heart. 
Dish Network released a DVR feature that can automatically skip commercials from nationally broadcast prime-time shows, a move that threatens billions of dollars in broadcast television advertising and risks the ire of the networks. 
U.S. television ad spending was up 4.5 percent to $72 billion last year, according to the third and final part of Nielsen’s Advertising & Audiences Report, released today. Nielsen said the report “took an in-depth look at media consumption by platform, and found that American advertisers and consumers have a huge appetite for television, as TV holds the lion’s share of ad dollars and consumers’ media time.” The $72 billion spent on TV advertising exceeded all other platforms combined, Nielsen said. 
It’s hard to find a live morning show or sports event coverage on TV these days that doesn’t feature tweets or Facebook comments from viewers. For most programs, though, getting those messages on air is actually more difficult than it seems and often involves custom software and expensive hardware. Vidpresso, which officially launches today, offers TV stations a far easier solution. All they need to display social media posts on the air is a Mac mini or Apple laptop that is connected to their existing production equipment and, of course, a subscription to Vidpresso’s web service. 
CBS.com has just launched a social TV platform called ‘CBS Connect‘, Lost Remote reports. According to the media company, its new site aims to be “a new social hub connecting fans with each other and CBS stars.” As usual with social TV platforms, CBS Connect aggregates content from Twitter and Facebook, while giving users the option to interact from the site itself.
LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV maker, plans to launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google's platform in the United States in the week of May 21, as the South Korean firm seeks to gain a larger share of the emerging Internet TV market, a senior LG executive said on Monday. The second version of Internet TV by Google, which hopes to replicate the success of its Android mobile software in the TV market, comes after its previous model, unveiled in 2010, failed to catch on with consumers. 
April’s NAB Show will see a meeting of an umbrella group that will try to move beyond all the different, incompatible broadcast television standards to single, next-generation world standard within the next two to five years. 
Using examples mainly from the US, he showed how, for example, CBS quadrupled Twitter discussion about the show Survivor after host Jeff Probst began tweeting notes about episodes as they went out. However, Wang said that he wanted to see TV’s use of Twitter evolve. While Wang said that flashing up hashtags and account usernames on-screen (both popular tactics used by broadcasters) can increase engagement, more ‘artful’ uses of the platform could yield greater results. What is ‘artful’ use of Twitter, when it comes to the TV industry? These were his examples: - Parallel storylines - Using Twitter for realtime reactions data 
Netflix has been making a few moves to separate its DVD business more from its streaming operation, and today brings news of the latest move in that direction: the company has bought the domain name DVD.com, the company has confirmed to us. 
Comcast said content streamed over Microsoft's Xbox won't count against a user's 250 GB usage cap, prompting outrage. But the reality of the situation is that the way Comcast is delivering its content over the Xbox means it's in the right. EdNote: Bandwidth Capping, Net Neutrality and OTT - a great case study of the industry and regulatory challenges 
Ericsson will demonstrate how it is driving the future of television with the industry's broadest portfolio of solutions and services. As the market adapts to meet the challenges of increasing consumer desire for multi-screen television; multi-platform delivery is the essential route to uniting different delivery networks, back-office systems and consumer devices. |
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