No, I'm not talking about THE earthquake, although this shift can be considered "tectonic" in a non-literal sense. I am of course talking about the impeding changes in video delivery landscape or OTT services in their general sense. I spoke at this week's Streaming Media East in NYC...

Comcast to Compete with Microsoft Azure and other musings from Light Reading Conference Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory May 4, 2011 Yesterday, I talked about some of the interesting things I learned at the Seachange Multi-Screen conference in New York. Today, I’ll summarize a few of things...

Shortly after we published last week's OTT Monitor story on Comcast's warnings that cable prices are likely to go up because of retransmission costs, Cablevision's CEO James Dolan told an investor conference in California "if network programmers push for higher retransmission fees, the...

À la carte Hits North America Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory February 12, 2010 Bell TV, a PayTV provider in the Quebec province of Canada, just gave their customers a whole lot more flexibility with how they subscribe to TV channels. In a first for the North American continent, you can...

TV Channel "Insurance" and Why We Pay It Colin Dixon, Broadband Media Practice Manager May 6, 2009 I was reading an interesting piece from the New York Times discussing how cable TV is struggling against the rising cost of the channels they carry. The gist of the article is that the cable subscriptions...

PayTV Operators Must Embrace Consumer Choice- That is, if They Hope to Avoid Becoming 'Dumb Pipe' Providers Michael Greeson, President and Pricipal Analyst April 13, 2009 When TDG was first founded in 2004, the issue of a la carte versus pre-packaged PayTV subscription tiers was on fire, primarily...