Evaluating five vendor proposals to build new VOD apps on HbbTV and games consoles. Spreadsheet includes CAPEX and OPEX spend as well as a 4-year Total Cost of Ownership model.
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BroadcastersFeaturesGrowthMonetisationProduct DevelopmentStrategyWe’re Now into the Fourth Major VOD Product Cycle
Do you remember the first time you heard about video-on-demand? My introduction to the concept was in 1998 when I was working at Nettec PLC, an early internet consultancy, and I visited the offices of a potential client, Bryan Morrison, a music producer and agent, in London. A silver-haired, straight-talking cockney, fond of smoking big cigars, Bryan had represented, amongst others, Pink Floyd in the 1960s and, latterly, Wham! and George Michael. Now, during the...
334 million TV requests in October 2018, up 18% on the same month last year, beats previous record high of 328 million in January.
With the recent news that 5G should be up and running by 2020, we imagine its impact on the TV industry. Tell us what you think. The year is 2020 and 5G has arrived in the UK. Running at speeds of up to 3.77 gigabits a second (which is over 300 times faster than a typical 4G connection), consumers can now download an entire HD movie inside two seconds or all 600 episodes of The Simpsons, again in...