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Content Protection in Cloud TV and Why it Matters

Fri, Apr 7, 2017 | by Andy Stout

One of the factors that is often referred to when accounting for the electronic entertainment industry’s comparatively slow movement towards the cloud is worries about content security. When it comes to the production of its content, the industry has quite rightly insisted on powerful Content Protection protocols being established to make sure that increasingly sophisticated video piracy operations cannot intercept and steal its material.

Wed, Mar 29, 2017 | by Andy Stout

In January 2015, analyst Digi-Capital made a bold statement about the future of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality technology (AR). “VR will be big; AR will be bigger and take longer,” it said...

Fri, Mar 24, 2017 | by Andy Stout

From funnels to touchpoints to end–to-end journeys, we’ve come a long way in our understanding of the decision processes that customers make when they are choosing a service, whether it be TV or anyth...

Wed, Mar 22, 2017 | by Leonid Berkovich

In 1996 Bill Gates wrote a brilliant and visionary article ‘Content is the King’. Reading this title with today’s eyes, and looking at the current landscape increasingly dominated by OTT content, it i...

Thu, Mar 16, 2017 | by Andy Stout

Early March was an important date for the broadcast industry as a significant tipping point was reached in the US – the number of streaming media services subscribers finally overtook the number of Pa...

Wed, Mar 15, 2017 | by Bruce Tuchman

Just about five years ago, if you wanted to distribute your video content via the Internet and retain any kind of a full-quality experience, it was an intimidating and extremely costly endeavor. The t...

Wed, Mar 8, 2017 | by Andy Stout

There are several worrying angles to the subject of video piracy on mobile phones. And while the most disruptive so far has undoubtedly been the use of handsets to capture and stream protected content...

Fri, Mar 3, 2017 | by Esti Widder

Netflix launched its latest slate of programming at the start of February, in a blog post whose opening few sentences described exactly what the fuss is about regarding TV content personalization.

Wed, Mar 1, 2017 | by Andy Stout

Finally, after an extended period of dropping heavy hints in the business sections of the press, YouTube has announced that it’s going to start streaming live TV channels with its own $35 skinny bundl...