OTT

Platform As Medium?

8 December 2010

Back in the day when the Internet was changing everything, it was easy to make broad-strokes generalizations about things such as “Internet media,” “social media,” “mobile media” and other pop-tech-culture concepts. These days, such sweeping statements are increasingly confusing. And the Internet is maturing to the point where it’s just another platform and not a medium in its own right.

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Alternate Hypotheses For Cable Cutting

2 December 2010

It’s a big leap to connect OTT with stagnant Pay TV subscription numbers, especially in a down economy. Here are some alternative ways of thinking about cable cutting and OTT.

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What They’re Not Saying About OTT

1 December 2010

Lots of people are talking about OTT, but few of them live with it on a daily basis. If they did, there’d be a lot less hype.

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OTT Endgame: Part II – BIG Questions

3 November 2010

In part I of this post, we said that the Over-the-top (OTT) video phenomenon would lead into a series of Internet-delivered video on demand (VoD) services. Of course, since this is a weblog and not a report, there’s a lot we’re leaving out. Also, there are a series of BIG Questions that remain for the industry.

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IPTV 2.0 – Where’s My Hybrid STB?

2 November 2010

Hybrid set top boxes (STB), such as the one announced today by Entone, promise to breathe new life into flagging IPTV service provider business models.

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Hybrids. And More Hybrids

2 November 2010

True, hybrid set top boxes bring together the programming variety of Pay TV services and cable networks with the measurable, interactive capabilities of Internet-delivered VoD.

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OTT Endgame: Part I – the BIG Picture

1 November 2010

The likely end game for OTT will be Internet-delivered VoD programming.

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Time To Re-Think OTT

7 October 2010

If OTT vendors care about building large audiences, they’re going to have to re-think what they’re doing. There needs to be some serious innovation beyond what’s already happened. Better remotes, bigger buttons and meaningful content partnerships are just a few places for improvement.

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Can Television “Want” Anything?

10 March 2010

It’s hard to understand the rhetoric that ascribes human traits to a medium, but writers continue to make assertions about the things that “television” and, more broadly, “video” “want.” The most recent offender is an op-ed piece in the New York Times that asserts that “Television Is Not Free and Does Not Want to Be.” Of course, after clarifying their own inherent bias on the topic of à la carte media pricing, the question the Times should be asking is whether consumers still want to pay for television.

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Content + Business Model = Bandwidth Breaker

8 February 2010

Internet-delivered video is wonderful, but who’s going to pay for it?

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