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| Online Video: Separating Fact from Fiction |
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Bill Tancer, general manager of Hitwise, tracks traffic on millions of Internet users in the US. In this article he examines the hype surrounding the rise of online video. Should operators be panicked, he asks, or is there a proper course of action? His statistics on who watches the most online video will probably astound you. more |
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| External DVR: MediaHighway™ Creates “Convergence Plug and Play” |
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Until recently the process of delivering advanced pay-TV functionality was complicated and usually expensive. What happened to change this? NDS recently deployed a solution with CANAL +, one of Europe’s largest DTH operators. This solution enables subscribers to connect an external hard drive to their STB. The result: DVR functionality without changing STBs. more |
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| Who will be the Winners in the Race for Digitization in Asia Pacific? |
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As NDS Corporate Director for Consumer Devices based in Hong Kong Martin Kaufmann is in a unique position to analyze the commercial potential of Asia Pacific markets. For example he describes the Indian market as “both dynamic and exploding.” What is interesting, he says, is that “it’s not uncommon for an Indian operator to gain 1 million subscribers annually.” more |
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| Real Time 3D Characters from NDS Denmark: Making the Virtual Real |
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When Hugo the Troll was first introduced almost 20 years ago, no one really expected him to become an interactive TV pioneer. But he did. “The latest challenge is making Hugo and other characters appear in three dimensions without losing the real time element,” says Martin Ciborowski, Team Leader of Video Based Entertainment for NDS Denmark. more |
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| How Soon Will Europe Reap the Digital Dividend? |
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The shift to digital broadcasting is supposed to free up resources because efficient digital transmissions take up less spectrum than traditional analog. In Europe the question of who gets to use this “digital dividend” is creating quite a controversy, writes Gerry Oberst. In fact, final parameters may linger until the 2012 goal to turn off Europe’s analog TV transmissions, he says.
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August 14-20 |
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