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Rethinking the Definition of Podcasting
Author: Dale Gilliam, Director of Primary Research
Pages: 5
As usage models evolve, so too must the definition. Taken from the larger report, Podcasting Usage Profiles and Demand Forecasts thru 2012, this Market dBrief examines the current qualifiers of the word "podcasting" and seeks to refine the definition. The paper also explains why the semantics are so important in market messaging.
Free white papers discussing the emerging issues and hot topics in consumer technology.
Author: Colin Dixon, IP Media Practice Manager
Length: 4:49
Is the internet ready for primetime content? Are service providers ready for the answer? This latest podcast explores some of the consumer services available today that deliver television-styled long-form narrative content and looks at the question of what happens when the Internet becomes primetime.
Free white papers discussing the emerging issues and hot topics in consumer technology.
The Uncertainties & Challenges of Deploying IMS
Author: Stephen Dye, Mobile and IMS
Pages: 9
Every major wireless, cable, and telephone service provider is in the process of upgrading their wide-area infrastructure in preparation for the move to unified IP-based networks. In theory, IP promises to improve per-subscriber revenue and in turn both pay for the new network and drive greater margins for operators now facing the limits of their existing infrastructure. The switchover will have inherent difficulties and reorganization of some internal departments is key.
This white paper discusses the benefits for operators, marketing and support issues that will need to be addressed, as well as some of the features consumers can expect from IMS.
Bandwidth Challenges to the Digital Home
Author: Colin Dixon, IPTV Practice Manager, Senior Analyst
Pages: 9
The rush for Cable, Satellite and Telecom operators to deploy voice, video, and data service bundles is now in full swing around the world. Although each must add a different "missing" service, upon one thing they all agree; triple-play services are the most effective way of retaining customers and growing revenue. Telecom operators face a distinctive problem: current DSL networks simply cannot handle the bandwidth required for the rapidly approaching Digital Home of the Future.
This complimentary dBrief discusses the unique challenges facing the telecoms, and examines some architectural solutions.
The Emergence of Broadband Television - A TDG Topic Paper
Author: Colin Dixon, IPTV Practice Manager, Senior Analyst
Pages: 8
As the Internet finds its way to the primary home TV, consumers are looking to the Internet for content, much of which will be available on-demand and specifically suited to their tastes.
This topic paper provides an overview of the various types of Internet video now available and describes how Internet video will soon find its way from the PC monitor to TV screen. It also discusses several of the methods to help 'bridge' the gap between home broadband connection and television set.
The Tsunami of Content: 3 Key Questions You Should Be Asking
Author: Colin Dixon, Practice Manager, IP Media
Run Time: 7 minutes
Will your company emerge victim or victor in the Tsunami of Content? With multiple choices and more consumers becoming their own producers, the new media challenges being faced by traditional media players - both content and service providers - are complex and rapidly mutating.
In this free TDG Intellicast built from Colin Dixon's recent presentations in Europe , he explores three key questions that every content and service provider should be asking to survive. He further discusses the role you need to take now to emerge as a "Content King" in the rapidly evolving video market.
The Medium is the Message - New Media and its Impact on Media Consumption
Author: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages: 11
In this topic paper, TDG's Founding Partner, Principal Analyst and Principal Analyst, Michael Greeson, architects a definition of 'new media' grounded in current academic thinking on the subject, yet is tempered with a commonsensical business perspective. The paper also argues that we are at a time in the history of media in which customary modes of consumption are breaking down, becoming increasingly fragmented, splintering into thousands of highly individualized, highly personalized consumption experiences.
China's Path to Digital Multimedia - The Path Less Traveled
Author: Colin Dixon
The Chinese market is poised to leapfrog traditional TelcoTV solutions (that is, DSL-only TelcoTV) and jump to a hybrid broadcast/mobile/solution set. Furthermore, even as Chinese consumers begin to enjoy a more affluent lifestyle, TDG expects them to continue to be very price sensitive. This dbrief explores the challenges of the current costs of the market and the future difficulties of expansion. It also discusses some of the "must-haves" of the Chinese social life and how they relate to the television market.
Multimedia Phone as Portable Game Console Replacement?
Don't Hold Your Breath
Author: Thomas Wolf, Portable Media Analyst
Executive Editor: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages: 10
This dBrief explores the notion that multimedia mobile phones constitute a legitimate alternative to portable game consoles (PGCs), offers several arguments as to why this is not the case, and offers an analysis of two new multimedia phones positioned to support robust gaming. The paper also discusses what options may exist for operators and handset vendors looking to attract core gamers.
Mastering the Metadata Menace: How Metadata Mismanagement is Slowing the Delivery of Digital
Author: Colin Dixon, IPTV Practice Manager, Senior Analyst
Executive Editor: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages: 14
This new dBrief looks at the challenges of delivering advanced services to the Set Top box. Specifically covered are the challenges within the current Interactive Program (IPG) and application environment, the increasing amount of metadata, and how various solutions are seeking to solve this problem (and often falling short).
Sony's Universal Media Disc: A Product in Search of a Strategy
Author: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Executive Editor: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages: 13
Despite total sales of more than 10 million PlayStation Portables (PSPs), Sony has yet to convince the majority of PSP users, or the public in general, to purchase movies and video content that use Universal Media Discs (or UMD), Sony's proprietary small-disc format that the PSP supports. Given the lackluster performance of most UMD titles, a number of early supporters have announced aggressive reductions in the number of movies to be released on the UMD format, leading many to predict that the UMD's day of reckoning is arriving much sooner than expected.
The Market for FTTH in Asia : Different Geographies, Varied Results
Author: Frank Marum, Senior Analyst
Executive Editor: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages: 10
Asia is the leading global region in FTTH deployment with almost 5 million subscribers at the end of 2005. By 2010, TDG forecasts that Asia will have over 40 million FTTH subscribers making up as much as 25% of the total broadband base in Asia. This white paper provides an overview of FTTH activity in several Asian countries including existing subscribers, drivers and inhibitors, and a brief analysis of the business case surrounding the Chinese. Countries covered are Japan, South Korea, India, and China.
The IPG Goes New Media: On the Emergence of Trans-Platform Personal Entertainment Guides
Authors: Colin Dixon, Michael Greeson
Pages: 9
This topic paper provides an overview of how today's interactive program guide (IPG) will evolve over the next few years into what TDG calls a "personal entertainment guide" or "PEG" - an interactive, highly personalized guide that will not only serve consumers when they view TV, but will also assist them in navigating entertainment content through new media channels such as mobile devices and the Internet.
A la Carte Cable TV Offerings: A Response to the NCTA
Author: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
Pages:8
In conjunction with its spring 2004 conference, the NCTA published a
position paper against breaking up tiered TV packages and offering consumers
the freedom to select the specific channels they wished to receive. The
paper was entitled The Pitfalls of A la Carte: Fewer Choices, Less
Diversity, Higher Prices.
The purpose of this brief exposition is to more closely examine the
arguments offered by the NCTA in support of its position. We believe that
the NCTA's paper is ripe with politically-inspired rhetoric and that their
position is intended to further protect a business model that is becoming
increasingly obsolete.
Mastering Content in the Mobile Video Market
Authors: Dale Gilliam, III, Michael Greeson
Pages: 10 Figures: 5
"Despite the fact that portable digital video players have been poorly received by US consumers - and despite the fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs so adamantly maintained that consumers are not interested in watching video on a portable device - in early October 2005 Apple introduced the Video iPod. As with its prior hardware/content pairings for music, Apple also announced that the iTunes service would offer over 2,000 music videos as well as the popular shows "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" for purchase at $1.99 each.
Distribution of Profits in the Networked Digital Home: Owning the
Control Points
Author: Predrag Filipovic, Ph.D.
Pages: 11
Posterity will remember the last five years or so as "the era of convergence speak," a period in which technology evangelists spewed words and phrases such as "convergence," the "digital home," and "triple-play." Despite the significant intellectual property behind these concepts, however, these phrases became a bit vacuous - they simply failed to materialize as real products and services and, as a result, lost some credibility.
Understanding the Shifting Demand for Home Networks
Author: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal AnalystRecent consumer research suggests that demand for home networking solutions is not nearly as bright as either vendors or the popular press would have us believe. Even TDG's own internal research found that less than 11% of all non-networked broadband households are interested in buying a home network. While these numbers are true, they only tell part of the story - and by far the least important part. This topic paper discusses (1) why demand for home networking is declining, and (2) the implications of this decline to vendors and service providers.
The Digital Home: Finally Something Worth Thinking About?
Author: Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Principal Analyst
The concept of the "digital home" has been tossed about for years, but it always referred to something that was likely to happen tomorrow. The problem was that "tomorrow" never arrived and the concept of "digital home" was rapidly becoming vacuous, somewhat of a pipe-dream. But this is no longer the case.
The Emergence and Convergence of Media Phones
Author: Dale Gilliam, III
Many consumers that carry a cell phone, also carry around a portable digital music player such as an Apple iPod or Creative Zen MP3 player, and if portable video on a small 3-inch screen really does become the next "killer application" for consumers, then a convergence of their portable media player and cell phone will be typical for the entertainment-loving consumer - especially and particularly the younger generations. Thus, media phones, devices that offer cellular communications in addition to the ability to listen to digital music and watch video, whether digitally recorded, streamed through data pathways, or free-to-air broadcast, will emerge as a new product category.
IPTV's Impact on the Business of Television and the Emergence of
"Internet 3.0"
Authors: Hervé Utheza
This dBrief provides a n overview of TDG Research's upcoming IP - Based TV: Analysis & Forecasts . The full report offers a detailed analysis of the business cases (including profit/loss and ROI analyses), a discussion of the major market players and technologies, and a global forecast for IPTV adoption.
On the Future of Portable Media Centers
Authors: Dale E. Gilliam III, Michael Greeson
While consumer interest in Portable Media Center devices is very strong, the variety of substitute products are a legitimate competitor to this emerging device market. This white paper examines the areas of video, music, and photos to examine how application specific products as inexpensive as $79 can impact sales growth for the PMC market.
IP-Based Multimedia Home Networks - Hype vs. Reality
Author: Predrag Filipovic, PhD., Contributing Analyst
The transition of communications and multimedia from analog to digital is well under way. This new digital format requires migration to an appropriate transport medium, a network that facilitates efficient delivery and enables the creation of novel applications and services. Written from the experience of the former General Manager for Digital 5, this dBrief examines the business of delivering multimedia over IP-based networks in the home and the specific challenges that must be met by companies that create products and services in this space.
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