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Over-the-top or “OTT” – it’s everywhere, and service providers, today, both large and small are looking to make it part of their multiscreen strategy. But how are they doing it? And more importantly how well are they doing it? We look at how one service provider in particular is making over-the-top a reality for its subscribers.
Jazztel is Spain’s fastest growing Internet service provider (ISP) and has long been on the cutting-edge of telecommunications services, always seeking to enhance their offering and increase value to their customers. With fierce competition ever so present in the Spanish market, the ability to offer a TV service as part of full triple play became a key differentiator and was clearly identified as an opportunity to bring more services to their subscriber base.
The media landscape has changed dramatically in just a short amount of time. And the appetite for consuming media outside of the traditional TV environment, whether hybrid TVs and PCs or tablets and smartphones, is growing exponentially. But this proliferation of media outlets brings its own challenges.
Fernando Enrile, Director for Digital TV Systems & Services at Spain’s largest pay-TV provider, Digital+ takes us through their new Digital + a la carta OTT service and how it’s attracting subscribers to their groundbreaking VOD offering across TV, PC, mobile and tablet.
We are very pleased to announce that the Nagra OpenTV nX cross-device user experience won the 2010 TV Innovation Award in the category of "Advanced User Interface.” The annual award ceremony was held during the TV 3.0 – Innovations in TV and Content Delivery Conference earlier this month in Los Angeles and honors the most groundbreaking companies that are shaping the future of television.
The Nagra Media PRM (Persistent Rights Management) solution was a finalist in the “Content Protection” category.
Q&A with Chris Faw, Senior VP of Operations, at Time Warner Cable Media Sales
In a world of TV ‘anytime, anyplace and anywhere’, consumers expect to access content seamlessly across different devices, without being limited by digital rights management (DRM) issues. Whether on a PC or TV, once a consumer has paid for content, they want to be able to view it at any time, from anywhere and on any device. As a result, a number of service providers are reviewing their set-top box (STB) strategies and moving towards a media gateway – including PCs and portable media players – within the home for more flexible viewing experiences.
Over-The-Top (OTT) video services have the potential to change the face of the TV industry forever. The continued roll-out of fast broadband to the vast majority of homes in developed markets is inevitable. Fast broadband access direct to the viewer’s TV will mean opportunities for both new entrants and existing content players, bringing ever more options to the consumer. But it will also have major implications for established Digital TV (DTV) operators.
Five questions with Paul Woidke, Senior Vice President Advanced Advertising, NAGRA Kudelski
When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of global advertising group WPP, speaks, people tend to listen. His long-held view that the balance of global economic power is shifting to the emerging - or as he prefers to call them, ‘faster-growing’ economies - is backed up by all the major economic think-tanks.
There’s no doubt that over-the-top (OTT) or internet-delivered content is here to stay. To remain in the game, broadcasters must compete with pure OTT providers by making their set-top boxes ’hybrid’. This means that by plugging in an Ethernet line, or connecting to Wi-Fi, the set-top box can receive video-on-demand (VOD), catch-up and other offerings alongside standard broadcast content.
