Monday, September 27, 2004
Posted by Roberto
6:38 AM
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ALL FROM ONE SUPPLIER:
YOUR BROADBAND MEDIACOM PROVIDER
Triple Play = Entertainment + Broadband Internet + Telephony
For digital service providers like telcos and cable providers, the "triple play" represents the ultimate way to increase profits and customer loyalty at the same time.
TV over phone lines (TV-over-ADSL), also known as TV over Internet protocol (IPTV), is already taking root in Europe, with offerings from France Telecom, Italy's FastWeb, Britain's HomeChoice (Video Networks) and others.
HomeChoice service, which today is priced at £35 per month and up, features 35 traditional, linear broadcast television channels, 23 digital radio channels, broadband Internet access, headend-driven PVR and a number of unique "hybrid" broadcast/VOD channels.
Examples of current HomeChoice ITV services:
V:MX
A collection of over 2,800 music videos, which are organized into 9 genre-based channels, and which viewers can search by genre, artist or track title. It allows viewers to pause, rewind and fast-forward, to skip videos they don't want to watch, and to compile personal favorites lists for later viewing (the top-30 videos that are most popular with HomeChoice subscribers are compiled each week into a channel, called "V:MX Chart"). You can sit back and watch like a regular channel, but if there's a music video on it that you don't like, you can just hit the Skip button, and it will go to the next video automatically. If the next video is one you happen to like, you can hit the Yellow button, and it puts that video in your favorites list. After you've built up your favorites list, you can go straight to it and play it all day long, if you like.
Scamp
An interactive "hybrid" service which is targeted at pre-schoolars. When kids decide, for example, that they don't want to watch the Teletubbies, they can skip that and go to the next program, or, if they like it, they can put it in their favorites list. Another thing they can do is press a Find button that brings up a video wall with all the characters on the channel: Barney, Scooby Doo or whatever. They just navigate to the character they like, press the OK button, and the service plays just cartoons with that character.
BBC News Interactive
HomeChoice ITV service that provides viewers with a menu from which they can select and view segments from the BBC's News 24 channel. It's all on-demand and always allows you to start from the beginning. Unlike the multi-screen news services on Sky, which require you to tap into a looped broadcast stream, and which make you wait until the stream starts over if you want to see the beginning of a segment.
Replay
A headend-driven PVR service, that provides viewers with on-demand access via the EPG to popular shows that have been broadcast over the past 7 days on BBC One, BBC Two or Channel 4.
Today, Cable & Satellite operators are still offering superior quality video streams to their customers, but in the near future this competitive advantage will dissipate and Telcos will offer equal quality streams to their ADSL customers.
Broadband Penetration along Market Maturity Stages
- Trend Hunter
- Cool Infographics
- Information Aesthetics
- Interactive Architecture
- dataisnature
- Creative Observer
- Design Spotter
- feeladdicted
- Paleo-Future
- TechCrunch
- Trendwatching.com
- Graffiti Research Lab
- t r a n i s m
- Douwe Osinga
- AudioCubes.com
- we make money not art
- Pasta and Vinegar
- Lunch over IP
- Engadget
- Unusual News/Ideas
- CScout Trendblog
- Agenda Inc. News
- digg labs / stack
- Technorati
- Robots Dreams
- gadgetblog
- Create Digital Motion