Category: Interactive Television
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Fingerprinting – More than Just Piracy Detection
Last week’s decision by a German court that YouTube must pay compensation for user-uploaded content that violated copyright reinforces the importance that web site owners have rights to the content on their web site. This decision also points to the need to detect what content users are uploading; it is not enough to trust the…
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Meet the New MVPD, Same as the Old MVPD
Jeremy Toeman provided a view through the "Way Back Machine" as he provided an overview of interactivity through the decades at today’s STB 2010 conference in San Jose. He brings the credibility as the founder and developer of middleware software to enable the connected home in the waning years of the twentieth century. He was…
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Over the Top at NTCA
Over the top video was the theme of a panel at NTCA’s Annual Meeting in Tampa Bay. Robin Wilson of Nagravision provided an excellent overview of what over the top is and how people around the world are providing it as a stand-alone service or as a blended service with off-air or direct satellite feeds.…
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TelcoTV’s Terrific Turn-out
It has been awhile since I have heard anyone in the telecom vendor community express positive feelings about the attendance at a conference. I repeatedly heard from many vendors, however, what a great turn-out for this first annual conference regarding telephone companies that are providing or are planning on providing video services. As with video, the…