A trio of announcements this week highlight that MVPDs are starting to leverage the Internet to improve the TV experience. AT&T announced it had integrated its U-verse TV service with four social TV apps for smartphones and tablets. The apps talk to the U-verse set-top box over the home network,...

One of the things that has been sorely lacking in TV Everywhere is the "everywhere" part. Until now, operator TV-E deployments have mainly focused on the PC. Although some operators have delivered TV guides that run on an iPad or mobile phone, few have allowed streaming of subscriber video...

The debate over usage caps and Internet video raged on in the press this week. Netflix weighed in with an acceptance that high bandwidth caps were justified although low caps with high overage charges were not. Meanwhile, AT&T has introduced a bandwidth cap of 150GBs on its DSL service with an overage...

Comcast Discussing OTT Delivery in Non-Comcast Regions Michael Greeson, Founding Parter, Research April 29, 2011 At the SeaChange International Summit in NYC this week, Comcast’s VP of Advanced Business and Technology Development, Mark Hess, said executives are discussing whether to sell its cable...

Comcast Discussing OTT Delivery in Non-Comcast Regions Michael Greeson, Founding Parter, Research April 29, 2011 At the SeaChange International Summit in NYC this week, Comcast’s VP of Advanced Business and Technology Development, Mark Hess, said executives are discussing whether to sell its cable...

As first revealed on Sunday by DSLReports , AT&T is set to introduce usage caps for its residential DSL and fiber broadband services. This is the worst of all possible worlds for the embryonic OTT industry, for incumbent PayTV providers that also own last-mile broadband networks (as they virtually...

HBO GO - the 'TV Everywhere' expression of HBO - has expanded its streaming library from 600 to 1,400 titles. According to The Hollywood Reporter , this would bring most of HBO's programming inventory to the HBO GO service, including entire seasons of definitive HBO series including The Sopranos...