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Below is a short interview I completed about Social TV with Natan Edelsburg from Lost Remote. It gives a few insights on how Social TV unfolds in France, analyses the various strategies of the players, and what show are the most … Continue reading
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I will be speaking at Connected TV Summit next Wednesday about “Orange’s ‘Blended TV’ and the impact of ‘social’ in television“. Following a previous interview with IPTV News by Jamie Beach last February, let’s come back on the uptake of … Continue reading
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What is the future of Smart TV? How to create a luminous design that will enlighten TV experience across devices, and make it really consistently Smart? Who could tell us the way better than Dale Herigstad. Dale is Chief Interaction … Continue reading
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In this second part of the conversation (part I), Ben Schwarz, CEO, CTOi Consulting, and Nicolas Bry, Senior VP, Orange Vallee, continue their detailed analysis of how to harness Content Discovery and Social TV, and introduce the concept of Blended … Continue reading
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Will Smart TV be the same revolution that Smart Phone was for the mobile handset? Is it more an incremental innovation? If the business game welcomes new rules and new entrants, who will be the leader of this disruption? Let’s … Continue reading
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3 years ago, I posted a few thoughts about IPTV, echoing positive feedback from customers on our “TV on-demand” service: IPTV, the television of the 21st century! I spoke there about IPTV 2 radical diffentiators: – IPTV establishes a unique … Continue reading
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In the perspective of IP&TV World Forum where I will be speaking on March 23rd, I have completed an interview with IPTVnews editor, Jamie Beach, about latest IP&TV trends: What developments have you witnessed in the IP&TV industry in the … Continue reading
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3 years ago, I posted a few thoughts about IPTV, echoing positive feedback from customers on our “TV on-demand” service: IPTV, the television of the 21st century! I spoke there about IPTV 2 radical diffentiators: IPTV establishes a unique and … Continue reading
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The results of a new research study – conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco – were published Nov 19th. Investigation of consumer viewing habits and expectations of TV and Internet-delivered TV in the UK (UK TV Alpha Users … Continue reading
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According to Le Figaro article written by Marie-Catherine Beuth Nov 8 and ABI Research study, over 690 millions people pay to watch television. The number of pay-TV subscribers has had a 2% increase from quarter 2 to quarter 3. One of … Continue reading
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I’ve been through a very interesting article from Mark Suster, an experienced manager in the digital economy, now working at GRP Partners since 2007 as a General Partner and focusing on early-stage technology companies. It is called The Future of … Continue reading
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2 great articles have recently drawn my attention regarding innnovation: the first one is from Ikijiro Nonaka and is called “the knowledge creating company”; originally edited in 1991 in HBR, it tackles the subject of tacit knowledge, also sometimes called … Continue reading
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“Gesture recognition is one of the most exciting new technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week” says Venture Beat after the closing of the 2008 CES. Some prestigiuous CE companies are working on it: Panasonic, Hitachi, … and … Continue reading
VOD market is on high growth in France. According to GFK & NPA Conseil, almost 6 millions VOD have been streamed or donwloaded during first 2008 semester; that’s twice last year result! It seems that SVoD is a strong contributor to these results with over 25 000 new subscribers each month (see previous article on VOD pricing & customer experience at nbry.wordpress.com/2007/12/).
Amongst others SVoD offerings, one can now give in to temptation at Free (Free Home Video or Frissons Extremes), 9Cegetel (Pass Kids with Titeuf, Pokémon, Bugs Bunny, Kid Paddle…), and Orange (24/24 Jeunesse, and the expected shortcoming cinema offering based on exclusive deal with HBO & warner).
I guess also that revisited user interface can change a lot in consumer consumption: that seems to be the case for the new interface that we designed at 9Cegetel last year, and which has a strong impact.
Let’s wait now for the end of year to record that VOD revenue overpasse the m€ 50 threshold!
IPTV has reached mass market status in France. The reason for this success is due to a strong ADSL subscriber base of over 15 million customers, the good value for money offered by triple play services, and healthy competition amongst ISPs.
By the end of this year, France will have between five and six million IPTV subscribers. Of those, based on HD devices uptake, I’d expect a quarter to have access to HD channels such as France 2 and M6*.
*that use ATEME’s H.264 encoders.
