Apologies to those who don’t follow the great English sport of cricket, but the definition of a googly is a pitch which is thrown with baseball’s “screwball” grip but with reverse finger spin. So why do I believe Google is throwing a screwball at PayTv operators?. Well according to the industry grape vine, GoogleTV is…
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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…
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…
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…
