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The Industry in 2020 - Viaccess-Orca

Tue, Dec 1, 2015 | by Stephen Newkirk

Mergers and acquisitions: There are four major cable operators in the United States that provide video, data and voice services: Comcast, Time Warner Cable, COX Communications, and Charter Communications. Even though Comcast failed in their effort to get the support needed to purchase Time Warner Cable, I see other opportunities for key players emerging that will take-on other possible acquisition targets, driving consolidation. This is also true for our friends in the telecommunications market, as the pending AT&T acquisition of Direct TV indicates.

Mon, Nov 23, 2015 | by Christian Kurz

TV used to be easy to define. When you’d think of a person watching TV, you could easily picture what that looked like: that person sitting before a television set, watching whatever was on at that ti...

Thu, Nov 19, 2015 | by Efrat Fenigson

While the growth of OTT subscription services continues to work its transformative powers on business models across the global broadcast industry, attention is starting to turn to the effect that OTT ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2015 | by Chem Assayag

Buried deep in the French film archives of the Institut national de l’audiovisuel, there is a remarkable 1947 film showed Parisians walking around their city watching live TV broadcasts on tiny mobile...

Thu, Nov 12, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

According to Nielsen there are over 50m Hispanics living in the USA, not only making them the largest ethnic group in the country but also the 12th largest economy in the world — somewhere between Mex...

Mon, Nov 9, 2015 | by Attila Narin

I wouldn’t want to predict the future, but what we are seeing is, by offloading the undifferentiated heavy lifting of maintaining and procuring technology hardware, broadcasters are able to spend more...

Mon, Nov 9, 2015 | by Alain Nochimowski

Does light behave as a wave or particle? Well, both…

Thu, Nov 5, 2015 | by Brett Sappington

In five years, the video service offering will be significantly more personalized than offerings available in the market today. Personalization in the user experience, advertising, and discovery are i...

Mon, Nov 2, 2015 | by Efrat Fenigson

Many industries have embraced advanced marketing strategies in recent years, in order to communicate with their consumers in a way that will match their expectations and will increase their interest, ...