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More than 75% of MPEG-DASH deployments are due to take place either the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014, according to a new study by the DASH Industry Forum. Based on a survey of major European broadcasters, the forum found that much of this adoption is expected to take place under the HbbTV 1.5 standard, with the majority of deployments due to take place in the second half of this year. The biggest challenge noted was the availability of DASH clients – which are expected to be largely available in the second half of 2013 – while the availability of content packaging tools was the second biggest concern. Live and on-demand services will be offered by almost all European broadcasters using the standard, while time-shifted content delivery will be deployed by half of them, according to the survey. DASH allows delivery of both non-protected content and content encrypted with multiple concurrent DRM schemes. The polled broadcasters indicated that while some content will be delivered without DRM, Playready and Marlin were the two DRM solutions that they were considering most, followed by Widevine and Verimatrix.
Via Patrick Lopez
YouTube makes up 24.25% of all downstream internet traffic in Europe, with file sharing is tipped to decline due to the rise of legal OTT video services, according to a new report. The Sandvine Global Intenet Phenomena Report claims that among the European countries examined, web users had a thirst for streaming audio and video, making real-time entertainment the top traffic category with 40.4% of peak downstream traffic in the region. However, this fluctuated between 35% and 50% in different countries dependant on the availability of over-the-top services. “Countries with access to paid services like Netflix or BBC iPlayer typically had real-time entertainment as a higher share of traffic. In Europe, countries with lower real-time entertainment share typically have higher filesharing traffic, which leads us to believe that subscribers are likely using applications like BitTorrent to procure audio and video content not available in their region,” said Sandvine. At 24.25%, YouTube’s share of downstream internet traffic was double that of BitTorrent, which accounted for 12.22%. By comparison, Facebook was responsible for 3.97% of this traffic and Skype 1.65%. “We believe that filesharing’s share of traffic may have finally reached its peak in terms of traffic share and will begin to experience a steady and significant decline, as paid OTT video services continue to expand their availability throughout the region,” said the study. Sandvine added that European networks generally have a consistent set of dominant applications and services that are available in each region which account for 80-85% of all traffic, and then a set of very local websites and region-restricted applications that make up the remainder. Europe’s mean monthly fixed internet usage of 13.4 GB and median monthly usage of 6.0 GB is significantly lower than that observed in North America, said Sandvine.
Via Patrick Lopez
The main Spanish pay-TV platforms have lost 98,000 clients during Q1 2013. The current financial crisis – in which taxes have increased, demand has fallen and consumers have less money – is being blamed for destroying the Spanish pay-TV market.
Comcast saw a backlash from both TV critics and subscribers in 2009, when its first TV Everywhere service, Fancast Xfinity Online, debuted.
Via Peter Rosenberg
A terme, le populaire service américain de vidéo, Netflix, basculera de plugins Silverlight vers un lecteur vidéo HTML 5, gérant naturellement les DRM. Le géant américain de la vidéo sur Internet n...
Via Sonia Missul
Pay-TV services are still growing in Europe in spite of the recession, according to research undertaken by the European Audiovisual Observatory and released at the start of this year’s Mip-TV. It s...
At NAB, taking place in Las Vegas April 8-11, Envivio will introduce
new products and showcase new developments in next-generation
software-based video processing that optimize the convergence of
traditional TV and multi-screen services : - An Ultra HD 4K technology demonstration
- HEVC HDTV video compression, enabling up to 50 percent bit-rate savings while preserving video quality
- HEVC video streamed to a tablet in MPEG-DASH format
- TV Anytime capabilities including applications such as Catch-up and Start-over TV, highlights creation, ad insertion and nPVR
- Introduction of a new product that further personalizes the multi-screen user experience
- High efficiency MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) statistical multiplexing
- Envivio True Motion Experience, a new technology for high-quality streaming in MPEG-4 AVC format to connected TVs
- Video packaged by Envivio Halo(TM) network media processor in the Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) format, protected by Adobe Access
Via Nicolas Weil
The BBC has called for technology standardisation for second screen services in order to help move the the broadcast sector forwards. Speaking at TV Connect yesterday, BBC senior technologist for mobile and dual screen, Jeremy Kramskoy, said that common standards were important in terms of bringing down development and technology licensing costs. He also said that in the future connected home, when synchronisation will increasingly result in different web-powered devices talking to each other, “standardisation has to happen, otherwise it’s going to be a complete nightmare.”
Via Nicolas Weil
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, is introducing the next generation of its Analyzer OTT for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming services at TV Connect 2013. The Analyzer OTT supports continuous 24/7 monitoring as well as testing and troubleshooting applications, making it ideal in all phases of deployment, operation and expansion. Both Microsoft Smooth Streaming services and Apple HTTP Live Streaming services can be analyzed in any combination. Sophisticated multi-dimensional presentation of QoE and QoS with timeline analytics provide a solid understanding of relevant technical quality parameters and how they affect the viewing experience.
Via Nicolas Weil, Ludovic Bostral
Not content with complementing its DTH pay-TV business with an over the top (OTT) offering, BSkyB has now bought more capacity to run it on in the form of Telefónica UK’s O2 and BE consumer broadband
Another disastrous DRM experience for paying customers
Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have put forward a proposal that could add a level of copy protection to HTML5 audio and video.
SoftAtHome has announced that it has integrated Microsoft Smooth Streaming technology into its latest SoftAtHome Operating Platform (SOP) release.
Via Sonia Missul
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Retransmission fees to broadcasters could top $6 billion annually by 2018, with satellite TV service providers like DirecTV paying an estimated $2 billion of the share.
The world's two largest online video services - Netflix and YouTube - accounted for half of all Internet traffic in North America in the year to date, according to US firm Sandvine, a provider of deep packet inspection and network management tools.
Via Richard Kastelein & Adriana Hamacher
WhereverTV launches OTT Arabic TV for Europe, Americas Rapid tv news WhereverTV, the US-based over-the-top (OTT) TV provider, has launched its ArabicTV subscription service to deliver 21 channels live from the Middle East to connected viewers...
While detailing its predictions for the future of video distribution, Netflix gets to the point quickly: “Over the coming decades and across the world, Internet TV will replace linear TV. Apps will replace channels, remote controls will disappear and screens will proliferate. As Internet TV grows from millions to billions, Netflix, HBO and ESPN are leading the way.
Via Claude Seyrat
TV broadcasters can offer OTT benefits with their OTA service
Broadcast Engineering
Is there a way that broadcasters can play in the OTT market space with their OTA service?
Broadcast meets Broadband : that's the promise of the EBU's hybrid event which flies between industry competition, standardization efforts and broadcasters' realpolitik.
Via Sonia Missul
Geneva in late March doesn’t feel as wild as a Las Vegas boulevard, but still there was a reasonable amount of gaming excitement at the EBU headquarters, where several events were following each other, beginning with a DASH Interoperability Forum meeting which was closely followed by the BroadThinking event, where industry actors and broadcasters come to show off their latest implementations advances and/or share the results of their real-life deployments or research studies. A good way of managing the transition between TV Connect and NAB… Where Broadcast meets Broadband : that’s the promise of the EBU’s hybrid event which flies between industry competition, standardization efforts and broadcasters’ realpolitik – all wrapped in a warm and funny ambiance provided by the various speakers and the EBU team gently lead by Bram Tullemans whom I’d like to thanks personnally here for the presentation invitation (kudos also to Filka, Peter and Eoghan for the organization!). Actually the 2013 edition was a major success because it allowed the participants to get a rather good idea of the general trends of the industry, and at the same time to go deep in technology when needed, while having opportunities to discover edge tech demos on the lobby attending the conference room. It’s virtually impossible to render a complete report of everything that has been said or shown there during two days by so many quality speakers (including OnlineVideoFrenchSquad group distinguished members Lionel Bringuier [Elemental Technologies], Martin Boronski [M6 Web], Thierry Fautier [Harmonic] and Nicolas Weil[Challenge2Media] – Les 4 Mousquetaires /poke @sfaure ), but I’ll nevertheless try to provide you here a selection of relevant informations that will help you grasp the trends and prepare the upcoming tradeshows efficiently… So let’s start with DAY 1 recap !
Via Nicolas Weil
Video infrastructure company Harmonic launched a major new product today, ProMedia Carbon MP, a professional cloud-based transcoding service available from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Harmonic is targeting a range of professional users with this release, including media professionals with only occasional transcoding needs, content owners and service providers that need a hand with occasional transcoding spikes, and service providers that want to create cloud-based transcoding farms.
Via Nicolas Weil
Attention Xbox video app developers: Take your existing HLS streams and deliver them to the Xbox! Want to deliver your live and on demand HLS streams to 40 million Xbox Live viewers? Want to save weeks in dev time?
Via Olivier NOEL
With a strong 35.7% penetration rate, France is second highest - behind Norway (38.8%), but well ahead of the United States (19.4%) - in the use of connected devices (smartphones, tablets, connected TVs), according to a new study by media planning...
Witbe, the leading provider of quality management solutions for multimedia services over any network, to any device, will be unveiling a unique solution for connected TVs, during TV Connect inLondonthis month. Witbe’s Test & Validation solution will now enable content providers and application developers to benefit from comprehensive and automated quality testing of new services, prior to their launch on connected TV sets. Witbe’s Test & Validation solutions are already used by some of the world’s largest service providers, application developers and device manufacturers on a comprehensive range of user devices including set-top boxes, iOS/Android apps and computers. As Witbe’s solution for connected TV leverages the same technologies used for testing other platforms, developers and quality assurance engineers can reuse their test scenarios across several terminal types and even test converged services.
Via Nicolas Weil, Ludovic Bostral, Olivier NOEL
Motorola Mobility, whose Home division is in the process of being acquired by Arris Group, has licensed ActiveVideo Networks’ CloudTV HTML5-based interactive TV software to render advanced user interfaces on even low-end set-tops.
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