Some Silicon Valley research clarified the question why two tier 1 carrier’s advertisement department and content delivery network department were clashing with their revenues (from ads) and costs (from transport and content management).
The new Strobe framework builds on the vision of the Open Screen Project, a broad industry initiative to deliver a consistent runtime environment across desktops, televisions, mobile phones, and consumer electronics. While this might be a game changer for over-the-top video, I wonder how DRM and existing IPTV platforms will react on this.
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.
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.
Hulu is for the occasional glance at a TV series, or watching an older movie, where you will skip forward and backward a couple of times, and Netflix for a really nice quality without ad interruptions.
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.
Gutenberg aligns content, market, demographics, and creates basis for digital entertainment; BTX fails, Minitel success; Tivo fails
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