A recent PVR study caught my eye and got me thinking. Actual Customer Behaviour, in conjunction with London Business School, conducted an 18 months study in a number of homes with personal video recorders, video-on-demand and online video services. The study was conducted for a consortium including Ofcom, the BBC, Channel 4, BT Vision and…
The delight of the UK TV market is that it is unique. Born out of the creation of the world’s first national broadcasting organisation in 1922, the industry has since evolved through commercial TV, cable TV, satellite TV and now the fledging IPTV. BT Vision has pioneered the DVB-T hybrid model by taking Freeview and…
The mantra of content owners and broadcasters worldwide is that they offer a unique combination of content, brand and experience which cannot be picked apart. In the linear broadcast-only days this made a lot of sense. In the UK we tuned in to BBC1 where we knew we would see quality programming and soon grew…
Below is a copy of Amino’s submission to the BBC trustees on their Canvas initiative. Would love to know whether you agree or disagree? Amino’s Response Amino fully acknowledges that the UK public have demonstrated a real appetite for the BBC’s free on-demand services with the impressive usage of iPlayer by 1.4 million PC…
In 2004, I had the honour of key noting the inaugural meeting of the IPTV World Forum event at Earls Court. I had forgotten the key messages I extolled back then – until I attended the keynotes and panel sessions during last week’s IPTVWF event. They were almost the same messages five years later and…
We are now hitting a crunch time for Internet Video (OTT) to the TV. Looks like consumers love it (just look at Hulu and iPlayer), content owners love it (real customer contact at last) and the VC-backed start-ups are scrambling to monetise it (look at all the new retail STBs claiming to deliver it). BBC…
Classic economic theory says that the players within the IPTV eco-system will be well down the consolidation route by now. We start with lots of innovators – VC-backed start-ups with imagination, invention and inspiration – driving the critical first wave. Some get it right and some don’t but soon the natural leaders emerge. Then the…
