The era of analogue television officially ended on December 10th in Australia, heralding the new dawn of digital only viewing. In what is anticipated to be a boom for retailers and electronics manufacturers, the switchover also promises to rapidly shift the appetites of the general consumer to more varied methods of digital consumption whether via IPTV, mobile or subscription TV options.
Despite the vast array of download and play video tools available at your fingertips, adapting them for corporate use is often a huge leap, in both corporate execution and delivery, no matter how easy YouTube makes the distribution experience.
There’s been an endless stream of news reports around the NBN since the change of government. It’s hard to sort fact from fiction, rumour from reportage and announcement from anecdote. So here’s a round up of what the new government has actually done so far to implement its promise to totally revamp Labor’s ambitious fibre to the home plan.
Pay TV service provider Foxtel has announced plans for an Internet delivered movie streaming and movies-on-demand service that will put it in head to head competition with Quickflix, which has been struggling to turn a profit from this market for several years.
Deloitte has identified five major forces for change impacting the global television broadcasting industry: big data; the second screen; spectrum allocation changes (in Europe); the commercialisation of ultra high definition TV and the emergence of the connected television receiver.
The Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) standard is 20 years old. The DVB Project, the organisation that has overseen its development and its progress over the past two decades has been taking stock.
