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The cloud is ready to rain down some new video providers to take on cable TV. Using the unwieldy moniker of 'virtual multichannel video programming distributor,' these new services, despite [...]

THE RISE OF over-the-top television services and a growing cord-cutting trend are applying pressure to cable's pay TV business as never before. As the quarterly impact of subscriber losses on [...]

Free and subscription video-on-demand services sparked a major shift toward over-the-top viewing. Now, the emergence of virtual pay TV providers is stoking another big OTT movement--this time toward linear, live [...]

If it wasn't clear before, Comcast's deal to acquire a big chunk of Icontrol Networks delivered a powerful message to the home-security and automation sector: The cable industry is through [...]

Over-the-top video, once considered an enemy of cable operators and other traditional pay TV players as their subscriber bases slowly eroded, has quickly become a key component of video strategies [...]

NEW ORLEANS-More than any single force shaping the television and broadband industry, technology is driving the biggest change. Engineers and executives steeped in hardware and software acronyms, domestic and international, [...]

For the cable industry, FTTP is no longer a four-letter word. Thanks to increased competition and the emergence of over-the-top video and other bandwidth-gobbling services, fiber-to-the-premises architecture is now an [...]

Five years into its deployment, the TV everywhere experience remains far from perfect. On top of a new industry-wide marketing campaign, cable operators are smoothing out the kinks in the [...]

AFTER BEING HELD OFF at arm's length, over-the-top video services are now being embraced enthusiastically by cable operators and integrated on their set-top box platforms at an accelerating rate. The [...]

KOUROU, French Guiana--'We have more internets!' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After years of tension and toil, that was the joyful exultation of a ViaSat engineer the night of June 2, nearly 45 [...]

FOR CABLE OPERATORS and other internet service providers, offering a solid broadband service no longer ends where the wire connects to the home. Now that most devices in the home [...]

THE 5G RACE is on. Operators around the world are embarking on prestandard trials of 5G, an emerging, next-generation wireless technology that promises to deliver a jaw-dropping array of futuristic [...]

LAS VEGAS--The emergence of the Internet of Things has quickly been followed by the smartness of everything. As a key theme here at CES last week, it is clearly no [...]

The Consumer Technology Association's annual gadget-fest gets underway this week in Las Vegas, and once again a top challenge will be filtering the cacophony of noise generated by more than [...]

NO MATTER IF IT'S DELIVERED ON 4G OR NEW, speedier 5G networks, video traffic is going to dominate the mobile world. That's according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, which [...]

SUBSCRIPTION STREAMING SERVICES are gaining ground with consumers, but there's apparently plenty of runway ahead before they'll reach a saturation point. In the U.S., nearly half of consumers are still [...]

HULU ISSUED SOME REVEALING DATA that shines some light on how the over-the-top service has become a hub for binge viewing, defined in this case as watching three to five [...]

YOUTUBE TV, the over-the-top TV service launched more than a year ago, doesn't have the most subscribers among the streaming crowd, but it appears to be leading the pack in [...]

YET ANOTHER ALLEGED illegal pay TV service has gained the attention of major streamers and studios. A group that includes Amazon, Netflix, The Walt Disney Co., Paramount Pictures and Warner [...]

FILMSTRUCK, Turner's subscription video-on-demand service for movie aficionados, asked Twitter users to chime in on the four films that define them, and the Twitterverse responded--big time. The campaign raised the [...]

COMCAST IS CLOSING in on 600,000 customer lines for its year-old Xfinity Mobile service, and the bulk of them are coming by way of Verizon Wireless and AT&T, according to [...]

Almost 60% of the digital ad budgets of marketers are allocated to video, and more than half of buyers plan to increase digital and mobile video spending over the next [...]

FACEBOOK, ONE OF several major online video players putting its weight behind AV1, said early tests of the new royalty-free codec show that its bit rate efficiencies are exceeding expectations. [...]

NETFLIX'S WORLDWIDE subscriber base growth sped up again in the first quarter of 2018, doing so rapidly enough that a top industry analyst believes the service will reach the 300 [...]

CONSUMER VIEWING continues to migrate to mobile devices as it slowly drifts away from the TV screen. Maintaining its double-digit growth path, mobile now makes up 60.3% of all video [...]

FEBRUARY WAS A BUSY MONTH in the world of satellite broadband as a new speedy service was launched, a pair of demo satellites were slung into low earth orbit and [...]

DESPITE THE ONGOING POPULARITY of streaming services, the experience has not improved in some technical areas, according to a report from IBM, which has recently shored up its own over-the-top [...]

DESPITE A RECENT WRITE-DOWN by its owner, multiscreen video specialist Ooyala remains bullish about its future. Though that future likely will not include its struggling ad-tech division, it will center [...]

THE BIG THREE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION video-on-demand world--Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video--are on pace to see their investments in originals triple to $10 billion annually by 2022, The Diffusion [...]

The first uses of 8K displays will emerge in 2018, though the bulk of TV panel manufacturing will continued to be focused on 4K/Ultra HD this year, according to a [...]

REFLECTING THE shift in viewing habits, trends indicate that more than 60% of video plays will be on mobile devices by mid-2018, Ooyala predicted in its Q3 2017 Global Video [...]

REFLECTING THE SHIFT in viewing habits, trends indicate that more than 60% of video plays will be on mobile devices by mid-2018, Ooyala predicted in its Q3 2017 Global Video [...]

CONSUMPTION OF ad-supported video continues to grow among connected devices, but viewing of video-on-demand fare with advertising on traditional set-top boxes also remains a key area of growth. That's according [...]

NEW YORK--The virtual reality and augmented reality sectors are still spinning inside a hype cycle, but the high levels of investment and interest--as well as an array of recent product [...]

Video games remain the big content draw at this stillnascent stage of the virtual reality market, but VR's capacity to support a small-but-growing batch of live events has enabled producers [...]

VIDEO GAMES REMAIN the big content draw at this still-nascent stage of the virtual reality market, but its capacity to support a small but-growing batch of live events has enabled [...]

NEW YORK--As virtual reality enters what many see as a second cycle of hype, industry insiders and a small-but-brave group of veterans from the first wave insist that things will [...]

NEW YORK -- As virtual reality enters what many see as a second cycle of hype, industry insiders and a small-but-brave group of veterans from the first wave insist that [...]

When Google in February of 2010 unveiled an 'experimental' project to build a fiber network capable of pumping out Gigabit speeds--and started a selection process to pick a city to [...]

VIRTUAL REALITY is poised to become extremely real, and programmers and studios are lining up to take part in what's expected to be a wild ride. Content creators are shooting [...]

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'We believe the future of TV is apps,' Apple CEO Tim Cook declared in September as he unveiled the latest, greatest Apple TV streaming device. It was largely viewed as [...]

THE U.S. MARKET IS FLUSH with subscription over-the-top video services, but Netflix has pretty much ruled the online video realm in Canada since it launched service there in the fall [...]

HIGH-DEFINITION teleconferencing has helped to bridge the distance for face-to-face business meetings, but the rise of virtual reality (VR) promises to do that, and so much more. How about 'attending' [...]

As tens of thousands descend upon Las Vegas this week for the latest, greatest International CES, hot topics will comprise 4K/Ultra HD; the so-called Internet of Things, a grouping that [...]

Proponents of Ultra HD/4K are still waiting for the pixel-packed format to deliver the kind of 'wow' factor that excites consumers to snap up new, shiny 4K televisions in droves. [...]

4K resolution has been a focus of next-generation TVs in recent years, but the number of sets that are also equipped with High Dynamic Range capabilities is about to spike, [...]

IF TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES represent the small screen, then smart watches represent the really small screen. Consumer uptake of smart watches is also small, but interest in the devices is [...]

VIDEO CONSUMPTION will be almost evenly split between linear and on-demand viewing by 2020, Ericsson predicts in a new study based on roughly 20,000 online interviews held in more than [...]

The programmatic advertising model is having a growth spurt, but its overall slice of the TV advertising pie remains small. SHARE AMD GROWTH OF DIRECT AND PROGRAMMATIC MONETIZATION, U.S. Q2 [...]