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Mobile World Congress 201925-28 February 2019 | Barcelona, SpainMeet our Media & Technology analysts at Mobile World Congress 2019.
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In the Face of Stiffer Global Competition, YouTube Turns to Premium Subscriptions to Raise Revenue, IHS Markit SaysSeptember 17, 2018To address rising competition in the advertising market, Google-owned YouTube is diversifying its business model by rebranding and expanding its YouTube Premium subscription service and other measures to raise revenue, while maintaining the company’s position as the world’s leading online video platform.
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Immersive Computing - Consumer Augmented & Virtual Reality Report - 2018January 25, 2018IHS Markit's latest report on the consumer augmented and virtual reality markets. This report adds to the coverage of last year's report with additional data and analysis related to the consumer augmented reality market opportunity and also the location-based (out of home) consumer virtual reality market.Subscribers Only
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Comcast Launches Stream to Defend Position, Not Change the MarketJuly 16, 2015Comcast, the largest pay TV operator in the US, is set to offer a low cost ‘streaming cable’ pay TV service. The $15 per month service, Stream, will only be available to Comcast’s internet customers as the service uses the managed-IP part of Comcast’s cable infrastructure to deliver video and not the open internet.Subscribers Only
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Dish adds HBO to Sling TV serviceMarch 26, 2015Dish TV is adding HBO to its over-the-top Sling TV service. The premium pay TV content provider will be available for $15 a month as an add-on package. The deal comes as part of a larger carriage deal between Turner Networks covering satellite and OTT.Subscribers Only
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More validation for the fledgling Sling TVMarch 26, 2015Dish is once again boosting the channel lineup of its Sling TV offering by including A+E networks. A+E, History, Lifetime and H2 have joined the core package, boosting the channel line up to 21 for Sling TV’s “Best of Live TV” package, keeping the price at $20 /mo. In addition, FYI and Lifetime Movie Network have been added to the $5 /mo add-on package, Lifestyle extra.Subscribers Only
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Onkyo Expands its High Resolution Music StoreFebruary 20, 2015Home AV hardware company Onkyo has launched a digital music store, Onkyo Music, in the UK, the US, and Germany. Onkyo Music offers “hundreds of thousands” of high resolution music tracks for purchase. The e-Onkyo music download service first launched in 2005 in Japan, and Onkyo Music is the company’s expansion of the concept. The store is a partnership with digital music specialist 7Digital, and is a download-to-own service with no streaming option. High resolution music is priced at $15-25 per album and $2-4 for single tracks, and the site allows search and download of lower-resolution CD-quality tracks as well. Onkyo is currently developing the Onkyo Music app for iOS and Android, and plans to allow files to be downloaded to multiple devices, whilst also being stored in a cloud locker.Subscribers Only
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The Changing Shape of Home Entertainment in EuropeSeptember 22, 2014Richard Broughton, Director of Broadband, presented at the 2014 ESCA Digital conference in London and gave an assessment of the outlook for home entertainment across Europe, analysing some of the key drivers which are shaping change in the sector.Subscribers Only
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Apple and Beats: Strategic Synergy or Questionable Value?June 11, 2014Apple is to buy Beats Electronics for $3 billion, which is not only the largest acquisition in the Cupertino-based company’s history, but also its most high-profile strategic investment to date. The deal comes after handset competitor HTC recently sold the remaining half of its $309 million, 50.1% controlling interest of Beats back to the company for $265 million in September 2013.
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Google expands availability of Play movies, rolls out Chromecast to EuropeApril 04, 2014Google has increased the geographic availability of its Google Play movies and music stores to 37 new markets, with the service now available in 54 countries around the world. Simultaneously, Google has officially begun to ship its Chromecast HDMI device to France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, and the Nordics.Subscribers Only
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Comcast and Netflix sign deal for transit, not carriageFebruary 25, 2014Comcast and Netflix have signed a deal for ‘interconnection’. No terms of the multi-year deal have been disclosed except the companies have made it clear that the agreement has been developed over ‘many months’ and that under the deal Netflix traffic receives no preferential treatment at a network level.
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Aereo barred from operating in six states in US MidwestFebruary 20, 2014The future is not today, at least for potential subscribers in six Mid-Western states of Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The 19 February verdict in favour of broadcasters had its roots in a case which launched last October...
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WWE to roll out international OTT network in 2014January 15, 2014WWE is set to launch an OTT network in 2014. By focusing on OTT, WWE is bypassing a traditional live linear channel on pay TV. The WWE Network is due to launch on February 24 in the US, with the UK, Canada,...
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Technology and content mark successes and failures for cable operatorJanuary 09, 2014The top two cable operators, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC), have reported their Q4 subscriber results, weeks before they are due to report full Q4 results. Speaking from two very different positions...
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Aereo and FilmOn X - The final showdown with broadcastersOctober 15, 2013Coming off a fresh victory in Boston, Aereo may soon find itself battling the broadcasters in front of the US Supreme Court to determine the fate of online broadcast streaming.
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Cox's flareWatch Trial Ends, Leaving QuestionsOctober 02, 2013Cox Communications has ended its pioneering Internet TV service flareWatch just three months after a limited launch, likely because financial rewards proved minimal for the fledgling...
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Cox's flareWatch trial ends, leaving questionsSeptember 19, 2013Cox has ended its internet TV service, flareWatch, in Southern California, three months after launching. Having been a trial service and in beta, the closure of the service come as no surprise. The cable operator will now begin evaluate the trial and dete
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Microsoft Targets Always-On Relevance With Xbox One's Integrated Entertainment SolutionMay 22, 2013Overall Positioning With the unveiling of Xbox One, Microsoft has put forward its vision for the evolution of its positioning of the Xbox platform as home entertainment hub, by building a hardware, software...Subscribers Only
