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    Xbox One raises pulses, tracks them

    May 23, 2013
    Microsoft's new Xbox One
    Microsoft has finally presented its new Xbox to the world, describing the console as an all-in-one home entertainment system for the decade ahead that can connect to existing set-top boxes, snap between live TV and other tasks such as Web surfing and video calling (courtesy of Skype), and detect user gestures with much greater accuracy thanks to an improved Kinect peripheral so sensitive it can detect heartbeats.
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    Elemental Technologies creates Roku channel

    May 21, 2013
    US firm Elemental Technologies, a provider of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has created an over-the-top TV channel for Oregon-based Canby Telecom to deliver local broadcast channels to its subscribers via Roku media streaming devices.
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    Qwilt and Limelight partner on content delivery

    May 21, 2013
    US firms Qwilt and Limelight Networks have formed a technology partnership that will leverage their respective strengths in transparent caching and content delivery networks to develop an end-to-end video delivery architecture that delivers over-the-top (OTT) content as close to viewers as possible.

Analysis & Opinion

  • Microsoft’s bid to dominate the future entertainment stack with the Xbox One

    Paul Jackson, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media

    Microsoft’s reveal of the Xbox One yesterday evening in Redmond signaled the culmination of its ambitions to be at the centre of the future living room entertainment landscape.

    By , May 23, 2013

  • Netflix rights the ship, but OTT is the real rising tide

    Joel Espelien, senior analyst, TDG

    Attribution Bias is a cognitive partiality that causes us humans to make systematic errors when evaluating the actions of others and ourselves. In a nutshell, when good things happen to me, it’s skill. When they happen to you, it’s luck. And when bad things happen… I think you get the idea. Attribution bias affects not…

    By , January 29, 2013

  • Is the ad industry TV’s weakest link?

    Nick Thomas, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media

    It was allegedly Lord Leverhulme, the British soap tycoon, who complained that half his advertising budget was wasted. The trouble, he said, was that he didn’t know which half. Advertisers like to think they have improved measurement in the past hundred years, but now there is a new risk.

    By , November 1, 2012

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