I have been predicting ‘the end of TV as we know it’ for the last 10 years – ever since I started working on creating BT Vision in the early 2000s. I believed then that the convergence of broadcast television with broadband-enabled interactivity had to change the way we experience television. In those early days,…
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With IBC fast approaching once again, I have been contemplating that perennial question – what is the future of the set-top box? Let’s start with the basics – what does a consumer want from a set-top box? I bet the answer is a combination of cheap, simple, fast, easy-to-use, small, portable, feature-rich, energy efficient and…
Happy New Year. As 2012 starts to get into the swing on things and CES is upon us once again, I’m looking forward to what will hopefully be a definitive year for IP and TV. First however, a quick review on how I did with my 2011 predications… Cord-cutting was proven to be real if…
Imagine the scene, you are in the Garden of Eden-net, being tempted by an enormous Search Serpent to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in exchange for great wisdom. Do you side with the serpent, become all knowing but be condemned to a lifetime of servitude or stay pure and battle…
So here is a challenge. Imagine you are entering into a lift and a fellow traveller strikes up a conversation as you ascend skyward. “What do you do?” he asks, “I’m in OTT” you proudly respond. “What is OTT?” he probes. So now you have six floors to go, about 30 seconds of talk time…
Happy New Year! Time for me to put my money where my mouth is and deliver my top 10 TV predictions for 2011: 1) Cord-cutting is real and Over-The-Top (OTT) is the scissors 2010 has all been about debating whether cord-cutting is real. Media dinosaurs doing ostrich impressions by arguing that customers are just moving…
Here is a video interview I did with Robin Banerji on television over the internet and the mix of internet and TV technologies. It focusses on what I believe the new technologies will offer to those producing TV and web content in the future… http://bit.ly/9rREjW
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…
In our final audio debate on over-the-top TV hosted by DTVE, myself and Intel’s Phil Skeba and Steve Betts discuss the future of OTT and likely client device requirements… http://podcast.aminocom.com/NAB_SESSION_4_Futures_Edit_v2_inc_ST.mp3
In the third of our series of four audio debates on over-the-top TV hosted by DTVE, myself and Intel’s Phil Skeba and Steve Betts discuss consumer expectations of OTT and how these can be met… http://podcast.aminocom.com/NAB_SESSION_3_ConsumerExp_Edit_inc_ST.mp3
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