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Belkin is the latest CE company to launch a specialized antenna/receiver that supports a mobile television platform from Dyle that’s being increasingly viewed as a competitive hedge against Aereo.
Belkin on Wednesday introduced the F5L110, a $129.99 device that snaps into Apple iPhones and iPads. When paired with the free Dyle app, those devices can capture Dyle’s mobile TV signals in select markets. The Belkin device, offered online at Belkin.com and Amazon.com, joins an existing antenna/dongle lineupthat also includes the Escort MobileTV Receiver and the Elgato EyeTV Mobile TV Tuner.
Near the top of my personal list of confusing industry terms is "mobile video." Does it mean watching on a smartphone? A tablet? Both? Does it mean using a wireless carrier's network (e.g. Verizon, AT&T) or a WiFi network or both for access? Does it mean watching while out of home (and if so, where?) or at home? And what content is watched - live? on-demand? short-form? long-form? genre? The list goes on and on. Mobile video is truly one of the most confusing and misunderstood industry terms around.
Aereo has filed a complaint today against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service.
Couple of news items from earlier this month from Japan about the nottv Mobile TV service. First was that it celebrated its 1st anniversary. The second is that it has racked up 700,000 subscribers; less than a million that it was expecting. I have posted in the past about attempts by various parties on Mobile TV that was unsuccessful. You can read more about that here and here.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has given the go-ahead to Sentech, the state-owned company responsible for building the country’s digital television broadcasting network, to run a pilot this year of a new...
The person that convinced Steve Jobs to add LTE compatibility to the iPhone 5 may have been none other than Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. That’s according to Lowell McAdam, who recounted the story...
According to its stats, 48% of the online population in the UK used digital catch-up services in the last three months. However, among those that did not watch catch-up TV, just 7% said they thought they would start doing so in the next year, compared to 79% that said they were unlikely to.
Almost a decade after Qualcomm's MediaFlo, Crown Castle's Modeo and Aloha Partners' Hiwire first tested the mobile TV game with less-than-stellar results, a new crop of startups are rolling out essentially the exact same technology with hopes for a very different outcome.
Time Warner Cable's updating its iOS app and service to let subscribers view live TV channels when away from their home Wi-Fi networks. Read this article by Josh Lowensohn on CNET News.
At the NAB 2013 Show, Mark Aitken from Sinclair Broadcast was invited to speak to several groups. This was the most important one.
Qualcomm’s big MediaFLO flop hasn’t dissuaded it from pursuing mobile TV. It’s championing a new technology called LTE-broadcast that purportedly solves FLO’s many problems.
Samsung has partnered with MultiChoice Africa to broaden their product footprint and service reach in Africa. The partnership would see MultiChoice, now the leading broadcaster of premium entertainment on the continent, beaming its television contents and other applications through Samsung mobile devices including laptops, tablets and cellphones.
A group of TV digital executives speaking Monday at the NAB Show said that mobile should be the industry's top digital priority today and shared their own mobile revenue plays, including rich media, sponsored content and social media.
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Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said the proliferation of mobile video is one of the biggest drivers of his pursuit of wireless giant Sprint Nextel, adding that his $25.5 billion bid is like the closing two minutes of a Seinfeld episode, when the earlier seemingly disparate 28 minutes finally come together.
It wasn’t the first time Ergen used the Seinfeld analogy – he used in it 2011 when his wireless plans were first taking shape.
The New York Times reports that ABC will become the first network to live stream its local programming to users of its Watch ABC app starting this week. Beginning in New York and Philadelphia, the...
But it's not. "If we go to cable, if we are forced to, then about 10 percent of America will not get our signal and I don't think they will like that," CBS chief Leslie Moonves said at a recent panel. And for Moonves, it could be a win-win: what if CBS and its fellow broadcasters are financially incentivized to the tune of billions of dollars in exchange for going off the air?
"Last night I was out at meetings and would have loved to tune in to the (NCAA college basketball) national championship," said Verizon CEO. "But I couldn't do it. Going forward you'll be able to do that."
While McAdam says the service won't compete with in-home broadcast TV service. He said nothing about whether the service will compete with broadcasters' own plans to offer a similar broadcast TV service to mobile users via smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices.
Wireless traffic on Verizon is 50% video, according to a statement the company’s CEO, Lowell McAdam, has made at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas.
He then added that the reason why half of the traffic is video is his company’s LTE network, as 3G implies buffering, but 4G allows users to stream video, by eliminating that. He also made an interesting prediction, saying that the percentage of the network’s wireless traffic video makes will get to two-thirds until the year 2017.
Video consumption on mobile phones has grown faster than PC video or tablet video in the last year, and 41 million people in the U.S. already watch video on their phones. That contradicts the views of doubters who thought phone screens were just too small for video, or that wireless networks would never support it.
Adobe has released a broad set of industry data and insights about online video and ad consumption. Key findings in the Digital Index report show that TV Everywhere adoption increased 12-fold; mobile video viewing grew by 300 per cent; Facebook users are seeing twice the level of engagement with video over non-video content; and pre-roll ads now account for 82 per cent of all video ad impressions in long-format content.
The problem MPEG-DASH solves isn't that big a deal, and it's not going to make anyone's life simpler in the short term.
So last week, I promised to do a write up on KOMO’s mobile TV experiment. Better late than never.
Last week saw the public launch of Warner Archive Instant, a new subscription OTT service from TV/movie industry heavyweight Warner Bros. Considering that Warner Bros. has an almost 100 year history of being a leader in filmed and televised entertainment, its OTT service could be a significant new entrant. Unfortunately for both consumers and Warner Bros., it isn’t. In reality, it’s a ‘Netflix Lite’ at a higher price. That said, with changes in tactics, Warner Archive Instant could be an attractive value proposition to consumers. I have a few suggestions to offer.
Mobile TV is gaining momentum. Several developments show that the technology will likely stick around, and TV stations must invest to get ready or risk losing viewers.
NOTTV, a Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Service in JapanCommercially launched on April 2012, NOTTV is a mobile multimedia broadcasting service in Japan. Its paid subscribers exceeded 500,000 and compatible devices jumped to more than 2.2 million as of January 2013. The top MNO NTT DOCOMO, leading terrestrial and satellite broadcasting stations, top manufactures, and advertising agencies strongly supports the NOTTV projects under the belief of collaboration between broadcasting and telecommunication.
At NAB 2013, the company will demonstrate the service on site and is willing to exchange any new ideas on broadcasting-telecommunication collaboration. Please come visit booth SU5201 to see and listen to where mobile multimedia broadcasting is heading for.
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