Author: Giles Cottle
Boxee and Dish vs. content licensing
It’s becoming a cliché in TV land that content-rights restrictions, and not technology, are slowing the pace of industry development. At CES, Boxee and Dish demonstrated workarounds that have allowed them to offer two products frequently blocked by rights issues; namely cloud-based DVRs and out-of-home live TV viewing. Network DVRs have kept many a media… Read more
Samsung and Sony – a tale of two panel makers
Samsung’s CES 2013 press conference marked an important but subtle change in the rhetoric of the world’s largest TV panel manufacturer. What Samsung and its peers have learnt is that it is not just content, but user experience, that will win the battle for the living room. Long gone are the days when adding the… Read more
Press release: Global online video market will be worth US$37 billion in 2017
Video services delivered online will account for 10% of total TV and video revenues before the end of the decade According to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media, the global online-video market will be worth US$37 billion in 2017, driven by the popularity of services like Netflix and YouTube. This figure is made… Read more
