The new solution enables NTT DoCoMo subscribers to benefit from a variety of fresh content with no download or buffering time. By paying a monthly subscription fee, end-users will get premium movies, TV series, music, e-books, newspapers, games and magazines pre-cached on their devices. About ten mobile devices are integrating the solution in 2012. 50 million devices will be powered in the next 5 years. Expway's mobile broadcast middleware and server are designed to help telecom operators to offload video traffic from their 3G network to the mobile broadcast network. The technology allows telecom operators to cope with the exponential growth of mobile video. The solution manages on the device the catalog of all metadata: live TV events (EPG) and on-Demand (ECG) in a compressed and efficient mode. The solution pushes files to the device using the broadcast network and unlike any existing Push technology its delivery is 100% certain: If the file is not received fully a small repair file will be sent at 3G. Pushed video are of 1080p quality and protected using NTT HW CAS and DRM system. Ed Note: I am personnally very proud that we have been selected for providing the technology behind this large scale deployment, with both our Mobile Broadcast Middleware and Mobile Broadcast Delivery Server. 
Nvidia reported its first-quarter earnings today, but the most interesting part arguably wasn't the $60 million in profit or $924 million in revenue the company brought in. Rather, it was CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's disclosure that the company's hotly-anticipated Tegra processor with built-in LTE connectivity, codename "Grey," won't be ready until next year. Ed Note: A great platform to do Mobile TV! 
LTE is an amazing technology—but spreading it across the world and letting smartphone owners use it to their hearts’ content will be a major challenge on both technical and political fronts, a wireless technology researcher said at Interop Las Vegas. Peter Rysavy of Rysavy Research has been studying the industry since 1994, when the first IP-based wireless technology, cellular digital packet data, was being deployed. Highly available wireless data services took a lot longer to come to fruition than people hoped in the early '90s, Rysavy said, but today’s LTE networks are 1,000 times faster and 1,000 times less expensive per byte than that earlier technology. ... Rysavy said that getting enough spectrum will be a hard, political process, and bandwidth congestion may drive service providers to implement data caps that make today’s data plans seem luxurious. 
Representatives for the wireless and consumer electronics industries are heralding the FCC's move to permit TV channel sharing by broadcasters, a move designed to foster the repurposing of broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband.
Ed Note - Everyone is fighting to get those precious MhZ. And US broadcasters must innovate to keep them: deploy new services, improve the efficiency of their technology. Europe is promoting dynamic broadcast. 
Verizon Communications has been trying to replace its aging DSL service with its FiOS networks for years, and now its wireless unit is offering HomeFusion Broadband LTE service as an alternative to DSL both inside and outside of Verizon's landline footprint. Ed Note - Far less expensive to deploy if the copper network isn't in place. 
Clarion announced the Next Gate infotainment system this morning, and here at CTIA in New Orleans we got a good look at the new system. The device is basically a dormant unit, a lifeless peripheral until you plug in your iPhone 4 or 4S. Once a phone is connected, the Next Gate uses iOS apps and services to power an in-car infotainment system — a long-press on one button launches Siri through the built-in microphone, another lets you make calls using the Next Gate display. The Next Gate does contribute, though, beyond just showing your iPhone apps on a larger screen: it actually converts the apps into a car-friendly UI, so you can navigate them more easily while driving. Ed Note - we see more and more this kind of devices and accessories. Smartphones become the center of the content consumption. An other example is the iPad where the music and video can now be dispatched to my air play speaker. A trend to follow... 
“More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US TV networks created in 60 years.” Hunter Walk, YouTube Director of Product Management, Google in a tweet. 
A total of 140,000 traffic accidents were caused last year by drivers failing to keep their eyes on the road. That accounted for 63.1 percent of the total 221,711 traffic accidents that happened in 2011. Drivers often got distracted watching TV on their car navigation devices, using their mobile phones or dozing off. Mobile phone use was blamed for 259 traffic accidents, but watching TV programs on navigation screens caused 110,000 accidents. 
Verizon Wireless and Comcast will offer each other's communications and entertainment services in six new U.S. markets: Chicago, Atlanta, Colorado, Kansas City, Mo., Minneapolis/St. Paul and Salt Lake City.
Fisher Broadcasting’s KOMO Seattle and Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTP Minneapolis are set to debut test runs this spring of the Media 500 Alliance’s service to dongle-equipped iPhone and iPads. 
A little bit of news from Nielsen that flew under the radar a few days ago hints at big things ahead for the measurement firm and its goals of understanding user behavior across all platforms. Ed. Note - on the same subject as the previous post. 
Shazam is one of the most popular smartphone apps of all time. Most people know it as that clever app that "listens" to a song and identifies the name of it. Today Shazam released the fifth major version of its iPhone app. 
Always talkative NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is in the news yet again, this time telling the New York Times that his company's Tegra... |
Aereo, the service that captures free over-the-air TV broadcasts and streams them online for $12 a month, has come under fire from just about every major TV content provider, from local and national networks to the National Association of Broadcasters. This Wednesday, several of them filed statements seeking a preliminary injunction that would stop Aereo from operating while it deals with the suits against it. So what arguments are NBCUniversal, CBS, Fox, a local ABC affiliate, and others making against Aereo? Ed Note - The fight starts. How long will aero support the battle? 
T-Mobile, a public interest group and an association of rural carriers are joining forces to encourage deeper scrutiny of Verizon’s effort to purchase spectrum from various cable companies.
LightSquared is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing on Monday as it has made little progress in its negotiations with debtholders, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. If LightSquared does enter into bankruptcy it might find Dish Network waiting, eager to relieve it of its spectrum. 
The future of television is much more than social; much in the same way that the future of media is too, more than social. Social is a fabric; it connects the individual nodes that make up the human network. But, social however, is not a means to an end. And, as such, the same is true about the working theories driving Social TV. Understanding the role social plays in how viewers connect with programs and other people is essential to defining the future of television. 
With the emergence of smart devices, people are downloading content in unprecedented volumes, putting stress on the network. As a result, wireless operators globally are facing increasing demand for high speed mobile broadband services. More and more users are flocking to such bandwidth-consuming applications as YouTube and Netflix, leaving operators searching for technology to stay ahead of this ever-growing demand. 
The average American watches nearly five hours of video each day, 98 percent of which they watch on a traditional TV set, according to the Nielsen Cross-Platform Report, released today. Although this ratio is less than it was just a few years ago, and continues to change, the fact remains that Americans are not turning off. They are shifting to new technologies and devices that make it easier for them to watch the video they want, whenever and wherever they want. - TV is Still the Center of Viewing - Game Consoles Now in Nearly Half of TV Homes - Mobile Viewership Small but Growing 
After few days off Claude is (Back)... Ed Note - Thanks to your comments about this blog. 
The sharpest drop in watching traditional TV was among 12- to 17-year-olds; at the same time, Americans who are 50 or older spent more time viewing. ... What’s not counted within this data is any TV viewing on computers, phones or tablets, which partly explains the apparent drops in viewership among young people. A recent study by Viacom, the owner of Nickelodeon and MTV, found that TV viewing and game-playing on tablets peaks among 18- to 24-year-olds. Ed Note: Mr Nielsen you need to adapt and count tablets, alternative devices to the studies... And the ratings. 
Close reading of the Report and Order (FCC 12-45) adopted last Friday revealed some aspects of sharing that could have some interesting consequences. The Report and Order (R&O) allows full power and Class A TV stations to volunteer to sell their spectrum in an incentive auction, but also to continue as an independent TV station with all the rights and responsibilities associated with their current license (except for coverage and data rate) by entering into a business arrangement with another station to share part of their digital bandwidth. The good news for broadcasters is that a station that wants to share spectrum will be able to decide what station they want to share with and the details of the sharing (transmitter maintenance, amount of bandwidth, lease payment or sharing of auction proceeds, and the like) as long as they are able to cover their community of license and each station transmits at least one standard definition (equivalent to NTSC analog quality) signal at no direct charge to the public. 
If Lowell McAdam, CEO at Verizon, gets his way, his company would launch an integrated mobile television service where cable, wireless and FiOS customers could watch paid programming on mobile devices by the end of the year. ... Speaking to the “Wall Street Journal,” McAdam raised the prospect of the mobile video service in an effort to persuade the FCC to approve its proposed cable provider spectrum deal. An “integrated service,” he called it, where paid TV subscribers could watch content on a device like a phone or tablet would be a companion part of the deal, where either company could sell a service from the other. 
It's beginning to look a lot more like a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Suggestions" as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today made recommendations about limiting the scope of any "Bill of Rights" emerging from the President's suggestions last February 23rd. Already, the framework is being presented as voluntary criteria for businesses, rather than formal regulations. Ed. Note - Privacy is key for the users, Exhaustive Audience Ratings is key for broadcasters business. Let's follow how this develops. 
We heard rumor of a Nokia TV app only a few days ago and today the Finnish Windows Phone maker has confirmed it. Nokia TV will be rolling out in the home nation of Finland over the coming weeks,... |
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