Broadband service operators globally are increasingly making use of residential gateways to provide wireless delivery of multiscreen (mobile phones, PCs and tablets) video to viewers in the home. The percentage of operators offering such services through residential gateways will grow fast, reaching 50% by 2014...
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Over-the-Top (OTT) video revenue exceeded $8 billion in 2012, with that for the three largest markets – North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific – all growing at rates of more than 50%, according to a new report from ABI Research. ABI expects OTT revenue to exceed...
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More than 75% of all transactional video-on-demand (VoD) movies were rented via cable and satellite TV services in 2012, capturing a large majority share of the $1.3 billion dollar market, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Telcos’ share of the VoD movie...
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TV and video viewing on tablets will soar to 58 billion hours in 2017, accounting for 10% of all current TV, video and OTT consumption, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The dramatic increase will result in significant changes in the...
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Verizon and Samsung announced an expansion of the FiOS TV line-up on the Samsung Smart Hub platform, which powers Samsung’s smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Verizon customers who subscribe to both FiOS TV and FiOS Internet can now access 75 channels of TV and gain...
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In an interesting development, Time Warner Cable (TWC) will offer up to 300 channels of TV on the Roku OTT streaming platform through their TWC TV app. This is the first agreement of its type for Roku, where a traditional pay-TV video service provider adds...
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DALLAS, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T is offering U-verse® TV customers a new way to watch movies across screens with AT&T U-verse Screen Pack. Available for $5 a month, U-verse TV Screen Pack customers get unlimited, instant playback of an extensive library of movies...
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A dramatic shift in video viewing habits and equally dramatic increase in on-demand video viewing in the U.S. “will push the wired broadband networks that carry this traffic to their absolute limits over the next decade,” according to new research from Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs research...
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Redbox Instant by Verizon is the new OTT video joint venture between Verizon and Coinstar (parent company of Redbox). The venture was announced back in February of this year and was immediately seen as an answer to the growing success and influence of Netflix. Today,...
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SAN JOSE, CA and PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire – Nov 27, 2012) – TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a leader in the advanced television entertainment market, and Cable ONE, a cable systems operator serving more than 740,000 customers in 19 states with high speed internet, cable television and...
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NBC Universal announced a new deal with Verizon to bring their content portfolio to Verizon FiOS TV customers across multiple platforms, including live and on demand TV. The pact is scheduled to begin early next year and illustrates the evolving nature of the subscription video...
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Web video viewing continued to grow worldwide in this year’s third quarter, as viewers increasingly use smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, PCs and connected TVs to tune-in to television and other video content, according to Ooyala’s “Q3 2012 Global Video Index” report. Although tablets and smartphones...
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