Google TV 2.0: Android Honeycomb. Apps. Awesome. Médias & Publicité : Les mobiles du futur perturbent la télévision. Une expérimentation menée sur la 4ème génération de téléphonie mobile montre que les fréquences utilisées brouillent la réception de la télévision. Téléphoner ou regarder la télévision, faudra-t-il bientôt choisir ? C'est le problème auquel risque d'être confronté le gouvernement. Ce dernier a l'intention de mettre bientôt aux enchères les fréquences de téléphone mobile 4G. Il espère en retirer deux milliards d'euros. Orange, SFR et Bouygues Telecom, qui ont mené une expérimentation en Mayenne près de Laval avec le diffuseur technique TDF, en ont fait l'amère expérience. Difficile de savoir combien de Français pourraient être concernés.
Pire dans les villes ? Après cette première expérimentation en zone rurale, les opérateurs redoutent que la perturbation de la télévision ne soit encore pire au cœur des villes. Ce problème technique embarrasse les autorités publiques. Playcast Media Launches First Ever Cloud Gaming Service in Asia -- SINGAPORE and LOS ANGELES, April 19. SINGAPORE and LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Playcast Media, one of the world's leading cloud gaming providers, announced the commercial launch of its Games On Demand service in Singapore, with Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading multimedia solutions provider. The partnership marks a key milestone in Playcast Media's business strategy to expand its service throughout Asia with Telecommunications and Pay-TV networks.
Playcast's Games On Demand service launches as "ESC," a new SingTel media entertainment offering for customers and will be available in Singapore to anyone with fibre or broadband connectivity of 10Mbps and above. The games are executed, rendered and streamed from SingTel's data centers as an MPEG stream to consumers, using both the DSL & high quality, low latency FTTH access network, and can be played using a PC or SingTel's "exCite" TV Service. "SingTel is very pleased to be working with Playcast on our cloud gaming service 'ESC.' Instant phone service made possible by Orange webphone API using the Adobe Flash Platform. IPTV primer: an overview of the fusion of TV and the Internet. Profound as it may be, the Internet revolution still pales in comparison to that earlier revolution that first brought screens in millions of homes: the TV revolution.
Americans still spend more of their non-sleep, non-work time on watching TV than on any other activity. And now the immovable object (the couch potato) and the irresistible force (the business-model destroying Internet) are colliding. For decades, the limitations of technology only allowed viewers to watch TV programs as they were broadcast. Although limiting, this way of watching TV has the benefit of simplicity: the viewer only has to turn on the set and select a channel. They then get to see what was deemed broadcast-worthy at that particular time. The process of distributing TV over a data network such as the Internet, a process often called IPTV, is a little more complex than just sending files back and forth.
Streaming In addition to raw capacity, streaming video also places other demands on the network. Big Cable Is Bleeding: 500K+ Subscribers Lost In Q3: Online Video News « Video - Cisco Spiking Its IPTV Middleware. LAS VEGAS -- TelcoTV 2010 -- Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) is exiting the IPTV middleware business in the US and putting in place a conversion path to Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Mediaroom for its existing customers, multiple sources said here at the show. Sources on the floor said several customers that use Cisco's ISDP (IPTV Services Delivery Platform) were notified recently that the company intends to freeze the feature set of the middleware (which also includes the base navigation guide and other TV apps) but will continue to support it through 2014. Before that date, Cisco, they said, is giving those customers (there's believed to be about 20 or so of them) a way to "reflash" Cisco-made IPTV boxes to support Mediaroom.
And that sounds all well and good, unless you're an ISDP customer that doesn't want anything to do with Mediaroom. In response to questions about the future of ISDP, a company spokeswoman emailed that "we aren't announcing any changes to our IPTV platform. Global video-report-how-people-watch 2010 nielsen. Report: How People Watch – The Global State of Video Consumption. Netflix and Canada: hey brother, can you spare a gig? Last night saw a pair of new developments in the ongoing saga that is usage-based billing. Firstly, Bell Canada announced it was sort of withdrawing its plan to implement UBB while, a little later in the evening, Netflix said it was implementing a new option that will let subscribers lower the quality of their video and thereby use less of their monthly internet limit.
Let’s start with a quick refresher course on UBB. Essentially, usage-based billing is when an internet service provider bills a subscriber for how much data they download and upload each month. The more a person uses, the more they pay on top of their monthly subscription fee. The big ISPs such as Bell say this is in order to discourage heavy users, who congest the network and slow things down for everybody. A while back, I explored some of the myths the big ISPs and other supporters have put forward to rationalize this – check that out if you haven’t already.
Let’s just say that folks on Twitter were less than amused.