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Streaming: The battle of bundles
Streaming wars have evolved into the battle of the bundles. The bundling model is being…
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Ofcom’s ‘nightlight’ DTT looks like a fair bet for the future of TV
Ofcom’s report on ‘Future of TV Distribution’ in the UK sets out options for a…
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DTG Summit 2024: key takeaways
This year’s DTG Summit which took place earlier this week in London, gathered a large…
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Liberty Global: an update
Liberty Global’s management provided an update this week on where the company stands with the…
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HbbTV – what is it and why should you care?
In the TV business, we’ve become accustomed to a lot of acronyms and jargon. Just…
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Netflix looks to take market’s eye off the subscriber count
Reporting strong Q1 numbers, Netflix has confirmed that aims to stop reporting quarterly membership numbers…
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Canal+/ MultiChoice: The making of an African giant
After months of negotiating, Canal+ and MultiChoice have finally come together and are moving forward,…
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Direct-to-TV: the operator dilemma
The virtual set-top box, in the form of an Operator Smart TV, is not about…
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How Sky’s Now can remain a leading streamer even without HBO
HBO recently announced that it will be launching its streaming service Max in the UK…
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DVB-I: not just for broadcasters
It looks like DVB-I is going to be an influential standard, helping to shape the…
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Streaming: a new Multi CDN approach
The bandwidth demands of streaming mean that media companies are continuing to search for innovative…
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s evolving Max strategy
Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled new details of its international expansion plans for its Max streamer…
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Liberty Global’s big restructure
Liberty Global made a raft of big announcements today that could radically reshape the company….
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Power off, sleep and standby – what do they mean?
For those of you just joining us, this is episode three of a series of…
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Disney’s formula for streaming success
Disney boss Bob Iger packed so much into this week’s quarterly earnings call that attending…
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Streaming: after the revolution
Historically, revolutions have often been followed by a period of terror and bloodletting, and then…
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The gravitational pull of broadcast switch-off
WRC-23 focused minds on how digital terrestrial TV could be compromised by spectrum sharing. Despite…
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Showmax: A streaming revolution in Africa
A streaming revolution is on the horizon for sub-Saharan Africa, with MultiChoice and Comcast’s jointly…
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Amazon: The Prime Video Playbook
Amazon has entered the new year with a round of job cuts across its film…
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Broadcasters: The move to digital
While the linear TV business seems to be a sinking ship, UK broadcasters are still…
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2024: the year in view
For our final Week-in-View article of 2023, well-known industry technologist Thierry Fautier makes some predictions…
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Sustainability: attribution or consequence?
For those of you just joining us, this is episode two of a series of…
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Turbo-charging super-aggregation: pay TV in the 2020s
As operators slowly lose exclusivity on content that once locked consumers into the Pay TV…
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Zegona’s network options for Vodafone Spain
Breaking up is hard to do, according to the Neil Sedaka song. But for telecom…
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DTG: FAST, linear and AI – The TV of Tomorrow
The growing FAST market, the evolution of linear TV and the implementation of AI technology…
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Video workflow engineering and sustainability: a primer
In the first of a regular series of articles on sustainability in the video space,…
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Replacing STBs with Smart TVs: the pay TV options
In the first of a series of regular monthly columns for DTVE, video industry journalist…
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Formula 1: How AI is transforming live sports delivery on F1 TV
Sports broadcasting and streaming has undergone digital transformation amidst the height of AI technology, with…
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A success story for Netflix
Despite warnings of a backlash against its password-sharing crackdown and price increases across its ad-free…
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Comcast’s DOCSIS 4.0 deployment: cable broadband’s ends and means
In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the inhabitants of Lilliput are torn apart by a dispute…