"Over the past several weeks, my television has been receiving high-definition feeds of ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS, even though I haven't paid Comcast or Time Warner Cable a single penny for service." 
"Now that Comcast has started delivering its video on-demand to TiVo Premieres, the company has now revealed the second area where access will be turned on is Boston, starting Monday. The news was announced in a tweet from Head of Corporate Communications Steve Wymer, and as Gizmo Lovers notes, was likely held back as Comcast announced its own X1 platform would launch soon in Boston as well."
"At a meeting with developers Thursday evening, the Yahoo Connected TV team is rolling out the newest version of its ADK, in addition to open source availability of its device communication library for Android devices on GitHub." ![Comcast SVP Matt Strauss Explains X1: "We Believe in Unification of Experiences Across Devices" [VIDEO] - Videonuze | mvpx_CTV | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/_iOkljinVH0tRZoWE6Ht0zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
"Comcast made a very big splash at the Cable Show this week, officially announcing 'X1' a new web-like TV platform and user experience it has been developing for the past 2 years, along with 'Dayview' a console for customers to manage all of their Comcast services." 
"The big-media guys know how to serve up video to you on any device, anywhere you are, anytime you want it. But keeping track of it is another issue." 
"The Plex app for Google TV will be preinstalled on Sony's upcoming Google TV devices, which are expected to hit the shelves in the U.S. and other countries this summer. This is a big deal for Plex, and a nice addition to Google TV." 
"Set-top box maker TiVo has introduced a new Slingbox-like product that lets users stream live or DVR-recorded TV to tablets, notebooks and smartphones.
Showcased Monday at the Cable Show in Boston, TiVo Stream enables users of TiVo Premiere or Premiere Q digital video recorders to view video from their multichannel subscription on devices including the iPad on iPhone." 
"Television progress continues. In the late 1990s, the ITU defined the parameter values for HDTV and the 720p families.
At its meeting in May 2012, ITU-R Working party 6C, the same group, made the leap forward to the parameter values for the next two generations of television formats.
These are the (current name) 4K and 8K UHDTV formats - Ultra High Definition Television.
The new formats take advantage of future displays' greater colour range, have the option of 'constant luminance' encoding, and allow up to 120 pictures/second. They are constructed as multiples of the 1920 x 1080 format in ITU-R Rec. 709.
Demo of UHDTV: http://youtu.be/9U7e_quvkPQ ; Full article: http://tech.ebu.ch/Jahia/site/tech/cache/offonce/news/4k-and-8k-uhdtv-defined-16may12 ; "
Via Olivier NOEL, Robin Good Via Olivier NOEL, Robin Good 
"I've spent the last few weeks having renewed discussions with a variety of people whose opinion I respect in this space, including those in the Twitter-sphere, the blogosphere, and in plain old real life, and with the NCTA Cable Show happening in Boston next week, I think it is the right time to open this debate up again." 
"When Xfinity announced their Xbox 360 application and said that the data usage would not be counted against our bandwidth caps, we became curious. We wanted to understand more about how the traffic entered our homes and how it might be treated in comparison to the rest of the traffic coming through the same plug on our cable modems. Here are the tests we ran along with the results."
"Time Warner Cable is on a roll with this whole TV Everywhere thing. Just a day after adding Viacom channels to its live streaming iPad app, the cable provider has announced support for HBO Go on the Xbox, Roku streaming boxes, and Samsung connected TVs.
It’s been a long time coming: Time Warner Cable was one of the last holdouts to even hook up with HBO Go, the on-demand video service which gives subscribers access to every piece of HBO original programming ever… But it’s catching up fast." 
"Netflix plans to roll out later this year a subscription plan enabling multiple users within a household to stream content on different devices, CFO David Well told an investor group."
"In our previous post, we explored the evolution of multi-screen and the emergence of new network configurations, including DVB + OTT. In this post, we will share our thoughts on a few of the innovative technologies available to augment these networks from a Quality of Experience (QoE) and security perspective.
We have recently observed an increasing number of operators relying on adaptive rate streaming (ARS) to support the development of new OTT video service architectures. This is in no small part due to ARS’ ability to quickly and cost-effectively take operators over-the-top, and add interactive services to previously broadcast-only pay TV networks." |
"Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcasts to New Yorkers.
Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broadcasters are asking, simply because there is no federal licensing scheme yet for internet streaming of over-the-air broadcasts (one exists for cable companies)." 
"Dish and Roku have partnered to launch a new streaming service focused on international programming. The service, dubbed DISHWorld, will offer foreign-language TV stations targeting Indian, Arabic and other expat communities." 
"PARIS--Netflix Tuesday added some fuel to its original content engine, naming Cindy Holland its VP of original content.
Starting next month, I'll begin a new journey as an analyst with Parks Associates..." 
"The FCC is trying to make a backdoor change to the rules governing television distribution that would put internet TV providers under the same umbrella as traditional cable and satellite providers...." 
"Comcast has released two sweet additions to its home broadband service that allow users to turn their TV into a big-screen home and life dashboard. Using gesture and voice controls, Comcast’s new Dayview service lets users see their email, calendar, any home automation service offerings, etc. on their TVs. It’s kind of like how your caller ID used to pop up on your TV screen when the phone rang, only this can also work when the TV is set in 'screensaver mode,' creating an open window on your Comcast services." 
"Motorola is demonstrating how it expects TVs of the future will work with its DreamGallery concept. Powered by the company's Medios cloud-service, the display is designed to let you browse content as if it was the internet -- with bookmarks, personalized recommendations and interactive search tools. Its designed to work across your TV, computer, tablet and smartphone, aggregating Cable, Internet TV and VOD under a single interface that sits behind pull-tabs around the picture. If you're curious to see if this is easier to use than TiVo, head on past the break to catch your first glimpse."
via Nicolas Weil Via Nicolas Weil 
"With all of the recent announcements around new over-the-top (OTT) offerings for both video on-demand (VOD) and live, live linear, and live events-based content, it is hard to hide the excitement and renewed enthusiasm this news has brought to the digital media industry. Whereas previously the PC was pretty much the only device content needed to be tailored to—both in terms of content digitization and playback using rich media experiences—consumers are now expecting consistent and seamless experiences on their mobile devices, tablets, various OTT devices, gaming consoles, and connected TVs. As a result, throughout the last 12 months industry leaders have seen a 2X increase in average viewing time, a 2X increase in average bitrate, and 2X increase in the average number of viewers—an 8X increase in aggregate." 
"Some three quarters of connected TV owners across four major markets are connecting their sets to the internet, with connection rates being highest in France, according to a survey by Futuresource Consulting.
Futuresource surveyed 4,000 consumers across the US, UK, France and Germany. The company found that 71% of connected TV owners in France hooked their sets up to the web, with the lowest connection rate across the four countries surveyed being that of the UK, at 56%." 
"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. Shalini Ramachandran has details on digits."
"You’re so over DVDs, right? And you’re done with trying to track down every movie on BitTorrent, only to find that it’s in Russian, has Chinese subtitles, and is only 480 x 320 resolution anyway. So you’ve subscribed to Netflix and Hulu, downloaded a few movies from Amazon, and finally caved in to your significant other’s endless complaints about having “movie night” around your laptop’s 14-inch screen. So you’ve decided to buy a set-top box, and bring the internet and all its wares straight to your HDTV."
"On a beautiful warm evening in Palo Alto, California, the Google TV team hosted their first ever meetup and Hangout On Air at the Sony Store in the Stanford Shopping Center. Nearly 200 of you came out to join us and geeked out on new and upcoming products. It was a night of great conversation, food named after Android platforms (Ice Cream Sandwiches & Gingerbread cookies), schwag giveaways, and some awesome prizes." 
"Google still believes it can wrap its massive Internet arms around TV — even after consumers spurned its freshman effort as clunky and not very useful.
Two years after the company launched an ambitious strategy to meld Web search, online video and apps with traditional television, Google TV has failed to take off. Indeed, one of Google’s initial marquee hardware partners, Logitech, abandoned its Google TV set-top last year because of dismal sales, telling Wall Street it burned $100 million on the effort." |
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