Cableco Seeks to be “Totally Open” to OTT Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory February 14, 2012 Virgin Media, the British cable company, announced last week that it intends to open up the company’s TiVo-branded DVR to over-the-top (OTT) video providers. That’s right: a cable...

TDG: A Third of PayTV Subscribers to Use ‘TV Everywhere’ Services by 2016 January 10, 2012 (FRISCO, TEXAS) – To defend against the encroachment of over-the-top (OTT) broadband video services like Netflix and Hulu Plus, incumbent PayTV operators are launching so-called ‘TV Everywhere’...

Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst December 16, 2011 Recently there's been a topic on my mind - the notion of "Accelerating Change." It's not news that shifts in digital media over the past decade (and more recently online video and OTT) have been driven by rapid change in technology availability...

Andy Tarczon, Founding Partner It's Friday November 11, 2011, or 11/11/11, and it's in that spirit that I share 11 things I hope we've learned so far this year. Given the year's about over, you should have your thoughts collected, right? Here's the thesis I'm playing with: while...

Last week, at the TVNext Conference in San Jose, I moderated a panel entitled Myth vs. Reality - Surviving and Thriving in the New TV Ecosystem . One of the questions I asked the panelists was whether the entire revenue pie for in-home entertainment - subscriptions, pay-per-view, ads etc. - would grow...

Among incumbent TV content providers, Time Warner has emerged as the most active in pushing forward the agenda of "anywhere anytime" for Net-delivered video. This week saw two pieces of news from HBO that reinforced this. First, Time Warner's HBO announced online service HBO GO will be...

Is Best Buy Finally Getting Serious about CinemaNow? Andy Tarczon, Founding Partner August 19, 2011 CinemaNow could easily be considered the hot potato of OTT. Starting as a standalone company running a movie streaming service, then acquired by Sonic in 2008 who eventually separated the platform - renamed...