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Status of online video market – green shoots are visible

Apple yesterday announced an overhaul of it’s online video strategy, and provided some interesting data along the way. This market (consumption via the web of the same long-form professionally produced content that we watch on broadcast TV) is one that is big and obviously coming and as such has a lot of [...]

BT going down partnership route

I have just found my notes from an event I attended a couple of weeks ago where Mike Carr, head of the BT research lab was presenting.

First he said:

1% of global telco research is done by the 3,500 researches at BT’s lab at Astral Park.

At this point I was thinking, OK [...]

More on open versus closed or IPTV v broadband TV

It was interesting to read on Vecosys yesterday the rumour that BT is struggling technically with it’s IPTV play BT Vision. The problem it seems is Microsoft’s IPTV platform which isn’t “performing or scaling”.

I have heard separately that BT has been talking with alternative PCTV platform Joost and I trust Sam and his links to [...]

If you doubted there was a revolution……….

People are adopting new communications technologies at an incredible pace. Much faster than even the vendors thought they would.

BT announced yesterday that it would sign-up it’s 10 millionth broadband customer this week. Taking it to 30 times the number they had in June 2002 and double the target they set five years ago. The [...]

BTVision announce Premiership football on IPTV

Great announcement this – for grabbing headlines anyway.

Looking deeper – they only have the games that Setanta have rights to, so they are missing a large proportion of the season, including the critical 4pm Sunday game. So subscribing to this wouldn’t let me cancel my Sky subscription.

Individual pay per view for all [...]

BTVision and a look at how close we are to tomorrows webTV world

This week BT announced the launch of BT Vision, their new IPTV service. There are lots of details on RadioandTelly but in summary you get:

A set top box which supports Freeview (UK free to air digital terrestrial TV service) Set top box incorporates PVR which can hold 80 hours programming Electronic programming [...]