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The Continuously Evolving Video Platform
Two decades ago, the conventional wisdom was that the triple play of voice, video, and data was an effective way to provide value to customers and reduce churn for operators. In the intervening years, over-the-top providers have emerged and pecked away at a service providers’ advantages in offering voice and video services. In the above…
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The World’s Biggest Art Museum – In Your Hand
“We want to bring beautiful images into millions of homes, everywhere in the world,” said Sheldon Laube CEO of Artkick. Artkick is a two-screen app that streams images to the TV (smart TV, Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV) with the smart phone or tablet as both the remote control and meta-data viewing device. The smart phone…
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Roku – The MSO Set-Top
Jim Funk discusses one of Roku’s newest set-tops – which is really a set-stick – that uses MHL as the interface between the TV and the set-top. In this scenario, power is provided via the connector, eliminating the need for an AC power brick. Signal is sent to the stick via WiFi. Funk also explains…
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1 Billion Served and Counting
Brian Jacquet, Director of Marketing for Roku, discusses who is using their product and how they got to 1 Billion views and 11 hours per week of playing time per device, while speaking at the Broadband Unlimited Conference at CES 2011. Interestingly, their demographic tends to be older and less geek-like than the typical over-the-top…
