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TV is fundamentally changing from a linear delivery model to a world in which apps compete with each other, and Netflix is spending billions to be part of that future.
Via Joe Smith
The BBC says it is “reinventing” red button interaction to bring together television, radio and online media. The integration launches on the Virgin Media TiVo service, available in 1.2 million homes in the United Kingdom. The new connected red button features will roll out to other internet connected television platforms over the coming months. While the design is a great improvement, favouring a commercial platform and failing to support from the outset the new YouView joint venture in which it is a partner suggests that the BBC strategy is far from connected.
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Potentially, you will be able to point your smartphone at a commercial and receive a coupon automatically. Read this article by Charlie Osborne on CNET News.
Via Joe Smith
Time Warner Cable added a "Voicemail to Text" feature to its digital phone product that lets subscribers receive voicemail transcriptions through emails or text messages sent to mobile phones.
Via Joe Smith
YouTube has undergone a major overhaul.The interface has been redesigned, for all platforms, with focus on a pretty important thing: watching videos...
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Worldwide sales of Smart TVs are set to go through the roof over the next five years, with experts predicting some 220 million devices to be snapped up by 2017. This news might not come as much of a surprise to industry watchers, but what does raise a few eyebrows is that more than half of these new Smart television owners are likely to use their new devices in exactly the same way as the older, unconnected sets they throw away.
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With no post-Olympic hangover whatsoever for its on-demand and download catch-up TV service, the BBC sees connected TV as the platform of the future for the iPlayer. Revealing the monthly performance for October 2012, BBC iStats said that the multimedia service had broken the 200 million request barrier for TV and radio programmes across all platforms, an increase of +20% year-on-year.
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You may have noticed something was missing throughout the nation's most social sporting event of the year. The Super Bowl in-game broadcast had zero social media TV integration.
Via Luc Debaisieux
By Becky Yardley, Community Manager at Juice Digital. Google's interactive TV service will soon be available outside of the USA for the first time. More technology like this could be good news for TV stations that have been struggling to keep ...
Via Luc Debaisieux
Tweet · Tweet. I want to preface this post by saying I have very little knowledge about the business side of television. The below analysis comes from some surface investigation and applying my own experience in building ...
Via Luc Debaisieux
Americans ages 13-34 hold tremendous potential for marketers, and Nielsen shows that males and females in this age demo are drawn to different types of TV ads.
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The latest data from analytics firm Flurry research shows that mobile apps are now used by more than 50 million people in America during the most hectic period of the day. And that moment is at 8:0...
Via Joe Smith
With no post-Olympic hangover whatsoever for its on-demand and download catch-up TV service, the BBC sees connected TV as the platform of the future for the iPlayer. Revealing the monthly performance for October 2012, BBC iStats said that the multimedia service had broken the 200 million request barrier for TV and radio programmes across all platforms, an increase of +20% year-on-year.
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It's been one of the more conspicuous omissions in the media hub space: despite Google Play being the cornerstone of Google's content strategy,...
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. sold more than 400,000 "Wii U" video game consoles in the United States in the first week of its release, the games maker said on Monday.Nintendo, which has gradually ceded ground...
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Ensequence signed a deal with Sony Electronics that could help ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, AMC and other networks deliver interactive advertising and programming to connected TVs.
Via Joe Smith
Back in 2010, the FCC mandated that cable companies offer cable boxes with an IP interface by December 1st, 2012. Well, in spite of the original deadline, the FCC has postponed the requirement until June of 2014.
Via Joe Smith
Over the last four years, the largest cliché in the telecoms industry has become the divisive, false and unhelpful battle lines drawn between “telcos” (traditional telecom operators) and so-called "over-the top" (OTT) Internet firms. Epitomised by companies such as Google, Microsoft/Skype and Facebook, Internet-based application and service companies have been cast as the upstart invaders, creating financial and network-congestion havoc over “our pipes.”
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"There's been a lot of talk about the second-screen experience," says Google product VP Mario Queiroz, referring to the devices viewers turn to while watching TV. "We haven't implemented a second-screen experience just to be able to say we've done it. When does it make sense for a [Google TV] user to have his or her tablet, or phone, or computer?"
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Netflix video streaming is now the single largest source of peak downstream Interent traffic i the U.S., according to a new report by Sandvine.
Via Micah Nyatsambo
The television is about sharing an experience, says Bruno Pereira, but the challenge is to combine it with a range of other devices (RT @thomasmarzano: Connected TV: why the focus should be on being smart http://t.co/BZPjgTRZ...
Via Luc Debaisieux
According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than half of the adult cellphone owners in the U.S. now use their phones while watching TV.
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