Hybridization, OTT Video and the Role of the Web in the Living Room

Hybridization, OTT Video and the Role of the Web in the Living Room

How We Watch TV is Changing

OPINION

  • Editor's Letter: Monetizing the Lean-In Experience
    By Tara Seals
    The Terms like "boob tube" and "couch potato" are synonymous with television. These are terms of passivity, of sloth, of old pizza crusts caught between the cushions. Operators are looking today to change all of that. But how?
  • Publisher's Letter: Exciting Times Ahead
    By Tammy Fellows

FEATURES

  • New Research: Consumer Video Consumption Trends
    By Tara Seals
    Video on demand, Web video, 3D TV, TV widgets, mobile video applications, over-the-top options: For consumers, it's dizzying to have so much viewing choice. For operators, this is impacting future revenue generation strategies.
  • New Operator Business Models
    By Tara Seals
    People at the heart of it enjoy using their TVs to … watch TV. If the role of the Web in the living room becomes something that enhances that viewing experience, that's a much more valuable proposition than simply making the TV into a bigger PC.
  • Over-the-Top Video's Changing Value Chain
    By Josh Long
    OTT has become a force to be reckoned with.
  • Social TV Goes Viral
    By Tara Seals
    The evolution of smartphones and the iPad and other tablets into hard-working broadcast TV companions is a development long forecast by analysts.
  • Mobility and the Future of Convergence
    By Tara Seals
    The roll-out of 4G in particular is set to create new opportunities for pay-TV operators.

NEWS

  • Special IBC Roundup