Why do you want a Porsche, a Marc Jacobs handbag, or a Bugaboo stroller? It’s not the price, I would guess. Even with no-name plastic wrap, flour, or electronics: It’s not just the price you’re looking at. So what’s wrong with the current “US deflation” debate, and with the broadband access price wars?
First generation IPTV service offerings and deployments had many different views on IPTV, just like in any technology and service offering hype cycle during the hype phase.
Deutsche Telekom R&D will officially open the doors of its highly anticipated T-Laboratories in the Silicon Valley in January 2009. The lab will start out with a focus on Clean Slate Internet Design, Services and Mobile Platforms, and New Media.
There is no such thing as “Dumb Broadband Pipe”. The worst thing video service providers can do is petitioning a Network Neutrality.
A recent article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix.
Social networking and media consolidates niches, forms new brands; long tail concept as we knew it dies and becomes a specialized thick tail.
Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.
TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.
By Patrick Pfeffer and Susan Tucker
I noticed that the subscriber number for IPTV differ greatly from research company to research company. When I dug a little deeper, I realized that the definitions of what IPTV actually is differs quite a lot: Some include Video-On-Demand (VoD) offerings because they are bundled with IPTV offerings; others also [...]
IPTV, though already in its second generation, is still in adolescence mode. While we can come up with a plethora of predictions for the future how TV might or might not look like, the near term meta-topics beyond mobility and hot applications are middleware, security, web2.0, and advertisement.
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