Among the gazillions of demos at the Cable Show next week will be one in the Motorola booth for the TV pixel geeks. For those who fondly compare the video outputs of different compression schemes, Motorola will have displays up showing video quality comparisons of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 videos at various bitrates. The purpose is [...]
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Not a day goes by without news of Internet video apps using more bandwidth than was even conceived of a few short years ago. In my head, these reports translate into three categories.
Streaming Service Success:
YouTube may have been the first Web video wonder, but professional content is rapidly gaining on the cat-on-a-skateboard variety. Two recent [...]
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Still catching up after a few days of vacation here. As I kick my brain back into gear, here’s a video from CTIA showing Motorola’s Venkat Eswara demoing the DH02. If you haven’t seen the mobile TV device in person, this is a nice close-up view. As a reminder, it runs on the DVB-H spec [...]
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I spent yesterday at Cynthia Brumfield’s phenomenal, closed-to-the-press Internet Video Policy Symposium. There were quite a few FCC economists present (current and former) and a number of lawyers and academics. Much of what was discussed was outside the scope of this particular blog, but it was all good food for thought, and you [...]
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Apparently this is not news, but I was surprised nonetheless to hear from Motorola’s Mike Patrick last week that upstream and downstream Internet traffic is roughly in balance, and has been for a few years. Downstream throughput is still the priority by far for networks operators in the US, but that has more to [...]
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It’s that time of year again. CBS is once again planning to stream March Madness games online for free throughout the NCAA tournament. In 2006, the first year CBS offered March Madness On Demand at no cost, the CBS.com site set a record for simultaneous online video streams at 268,000. In 2008 [...]
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Service providers operate their networks based on a series of calculations. Among the variables they consider is concurrency, or the number of subscribers likely to be tuned in or logged on at any given time. In recent modeling, cable operators have planned for roughly 10% concurrency with video and 1% concurrency with high-speed [...]
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Okay, so I’m not live from MWC, but many Motorolans are, and one friend on the ground has snapped some on-site pics for me. Above is a photo of two screens showing video feeds coming in through wireline broadband (bottom screen) and LTE mobile broadband (top screen). Obviously there’s only so much you [...]
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Advertisers got their money’s worth this year with the most watched Super Bowl ever. According to Nielsen, the Super Bowl averaged 97.5 million viewers throughout the game. Only the final episode of MASH beats that number in American television history.
However, the situation is more complicated than the Nielsen ratings suggest. [...]
I haven’t done a stat round-up in a while, so here’s a list of some of the interesting ones I’ve run across recently. They reflect quite a range of video and TV trends.
ABI Research predicts 215 million video downloads this year and 2.4 billion video downloads in 2012
Pew research found that 14% of Americans [...]
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