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Pet Peeves of TV
For IPTV to be successful, it will need to solve some of the most common Pet Peeves of plain ordinary TV. My personal Pet Peeves include: 1) Bad channel search capabilities 2) Lousy and limited content...
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Design Tutorial: Creating a Compelling User Experience for IPTV
Let me start by stating: if you think designing for the Web and the TV should follow the same blueprint, you’re wrong. Designing for the Web and TV are extremely different processes and every person...
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The Dog Days of Winter
Normally at this time of the year everyone sits back, takes a hard look at themselves and says, okay, time to make a change. We use January 1 as the time to reflect and resolve to be more active, get...
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UI: The Final Frontier for IPTV
UI: The Final Frontier for IPTV You have a back end. You have maxed out your QoS quotas and your IPTV service is streaming its way to thousands of set-top-boxes. You have a VOD server. You have...
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What's wrong with the TV watching experience today?
What's going on with the TV world today? Not IPTV specifically, but television in general. What makes the average viewer compelled to pick up the remote and power on their attention? Nothing is making...
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Who Cares About IPTV Channel Change Speed?
I've had many conversations recently about the differentiating attributes of various IPTV service platforms. Many things come to mind-- service interactivity, web browsing, quantity and quality of...
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DVR Vs. Time-Shifted TV
DVR vs. Time-Shifted TV IPTV has already moved beyond the “lab trial” stage to very large deployments. On the features/functionality front, while many operators are still challenged with getting a...
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The Most Important IPTV Applications - Poll Results
And the results of our latest poll are in. Starting a few weeks ago, we asked you "what’s the most important IPTV application for subscribers?" Three distinct groups of responses emerged from the...
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Is IPTV coming to a country near you?
Check out the list of countries leading the race for the most IPTV deployments. Looks like France Telecom SA is leading France to the number one spot right now, while carriers in Hong Kong and the US...
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Europe - 5x Growth for IPTV subscribers by 2011
I saw a note in Advanced Television daily news referring to a new Parks Associates whitepaper looking at IPTV service in Europe. The whitepaper "IPTV in Europe: Digital TV in a Hyper-Competitive...
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New FCC Regulations for US Cable Market
A New York Times story this weekend notes the FCC is planning to "impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after...
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The Future is Now - A Blog from Tokyo
I'm attending a NGN network & service conference in Japan this week. Riding the Tokyo subway, one cannot help but be struck by the anywhere, anytime nature of TV & Internet here. It seems every...
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not yet - FCC backs away from enhanced regulation for cable industry
As noted a few weeks ago, the FCC was looking at increased regulations to open up the US cable market. As reported today, though, the FCC has backed away from this. The report suggesting enough...
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TV viewing time to grow faster than web?
A recent report from Bain & Company covered in a Reuters story suggests that US viewers will watch an additional 2 hours of TV per week by 2012. The drivers behind this growth? Growth in...
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More on TV Time Growing Faster than Web
First, I wanted to thank Bain & Company for providing me with more background on the news story I quoted the other day. Frank Pinto has been an excellent and most helpful contact. With the...
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