Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
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 people positioning [...]
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 - quite a lot [...]
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 BT - so whilst [...]
By broadband television I mean TV delivered into the home via the broadband pipe. It might be watched on the big set in the living room, on an iPod, on a laptop, or just about anywhere but it comes into the house via the internet.
The thoughts below are about open services like The Venice Project [...]
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 UK is [...]
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 games or a [...]
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 guide which combines 14 day TV schedule [...]
