US Television Intelligence

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Reports

CBS-Comcast Deal: Business as usual or TV Everywhere? | 13 Aug 10 tags › | The recent Comcast-CBS retransmission agreement adds a major content partner to the Comcast-Time Warner TV Everywhere initiative, the operator-centric multiplatform distribution model. Early analysis that presented this deal as a marriage of convenience misses its strategic importance. This deal represents a potentially game-changing compromise between industry leaders seeking to recast online dis...

Google TV: the next frontier or another 'Web TV'? | 05 Jul 10 tags › | Google's TV platform, scheduled to launch in autumn 2010, will bring a large number of both legal and illegal online video sources to the living room TV, threatening both the established home entertainment business and existing pay TV walled gardens. The initiative poses an immediate threat to connected TV platforms (Yahoo! Widget Engine, Vudu Apps) and in the long run is set to compete with Apple...

Sezmi's personalized TV offers quick path to video for telcos | 15 Apr 10 tags › | TV viewers in southern California now have access to a new affordable pay-TV option besides cable, satellite, and IPTV, thanks to a little startup called Sezmi. The Belmont-based service provider uses a combination of broadcast digital spectrum and broadband Internet to deliver TV and video content to its subscribers at competitive prices. To keep costs down, Sezmi relies on other companies' infra...

Analyst commentary

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

Blockbuster, Comcast jointly market physical video, VOD | 17 Aug 10 tags › | Blockbuster is testing a joint marketing effort with cable system giant Comcast to promote its by-mail video rental service to Comcast subscribers, providing subscription access to DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles...

Epix licenses movies to Netflix Watch Instantly | 11 Aug 10 tags › | Netflix is to offer movies from multiplatform pay TV channel Epix in its online streaming service Watch Instantly from 1 September 2010. The multi-year deal gives Netflix access to select new releases and...

Presentations

3D: The future of home entertainment? | 25 Mar 10 tags › | This presentation overviews the current 3D television landscape, looking at the manufacturers bringing to market new 3D screens for the home, the technical specifications and pricing points, the relationships between all the various industry bodies involved in creating 3D standards. Also presented are our projections for global sales of 3D television sets, and 3D TV set penetration by market.

The business of broadcasting | 17 Oct 09 tags › | The business of making money out of television is in flux as advertising revenues fall and cross-platform distribution starts to become viable. How are broadcasters and operators making changes to their business plans at this crucial time and how will this change the industry? Tom Morrod, Head of TV Technology at Screen Digest presented this summary of market trends at IBC 2009 in the 'Business of...