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Cord cutters are hurting pay television

Mon, 27 May 2013 13:15:00 +0000

The top nine cable companies lost about 264,000 video subscribers in the first quarter of 2013 alone.

The U.S. pay television industry has suffered a net loss of about 80,000 subscribers over the past year — its first-ever annual net subscriber loss.

Why some Telcos are going OTT only

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:47:00 +0000

The conventional wisdom is that while OTT is fine for TV Everywhere service extensions, core pay-TV will continue to be delivered over dedicated walled garden networks.

Broadcast Engineering Blog

New metadata enables legal content sharing across IPTV platforms

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:45:00 +0000

IPTV is getting a standard framework for interoperability of rights information as a result of cooperation between the International Electro technical Commission (IEC) and ITU.

Portland telco delivers local DTV stations via IPTV to Roku box

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:32:00 +0000

To date, these IP-based, OTT services have not offered local channels, but that’s now changing.

To date, these IP-based, over-the-top (OTT) services have not offered local channels, but that’s now changing.

Streambox deploys servers worldwide

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:59:00 +0000

Streambox has placed servers in Australia, Japan, Ireland, Brazil, Singapore and the United States.

Harvard International powers STBs with Espial client, multiscreen software

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:00 +0000

Using the intuitive Espial platform, Harvard can generate additional revenue streams through the sale of companion application downloads customized for Apple iOS devices.

Broadpeak to feature umbrellaCDN, C-CAS at CommunicAsia 2013

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Using Broadpeak's umbrellaCDN solution, content providers can allocate the best CDN for their content according to specific criteria, such as the location of the end user.

Digital Rapids to feature Transcode Manager 2.0 at pair of exhibitions

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:15:00 +0000

The automated media software is among the products Digital Rapids will spotlight next month at the ANGA COM Exhibition and Congress and BroadcastAsia.

Swift QC delivers time-saving video-captioning system for repurposed content

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:12:00 +0000

The new software from Softel makes fast work of repurposing video content, including for OTT delivery to IP-connected devices.

Unified Video designs NOC for Totalmovie

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:00 +0000

The NOC supports Totalmovie’s global Internet live-TV and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services.