White papers and feature articles
Getting Pay TV onto every screen at Home
Consumers want all their entertainement on every screen, anytime. It is an industry mantra as Pay TV operators look to counter the threat of OTT and increase loyalty. It means delivering multi-screen TV around the home, finding ways to reduce the cost of multi-room DVR and ensuring everything works together, then taking responsibility for what happens on every device...
Taking control of the Connected Home
The defensive business models around multiscreen TV suggest increased competition is having an impact on the Pay TV market and it could be time to think about where future revenue growth is coming from after HDTV. The answer could be the 'connected home', with service providers taking...
Open standards for IPTV: a case for commonality
How open standards will mean faster and cheaper deployment of new IPTV services.
Scoring with 3D TV
Article from CSI
With a number of commercial 3D channels due to belaunched in the second half of 2010, ADB's Paul Bristow looks at how the industry can turn 3D into areal revenue generator.
Home networking and Virtual Gateway
As home networks continue to expand, so too does their complexity. We discuss here the elements and disruptive potential of a virtual gateway approach.
Bringing the world to your TV screen
Swiss Style
In February this year, Genevabased Advanced Digital Broadcast Holdings SA (ADB Group) released its 2009 financial report showing rather remarkable results, given the current rather depressed state of the market.
Content convergence - the new tv frontier
Consumers have changed and the television industry nowrecognizes the need to give people access to more of thecontent they want, where and when they want it.
Creating a new consumer TV experience
Swiss Style
The television experience today is barely recognizable from the one that greeted the early adopters of the 1930s. From a single radiotransmitted black and white, low resolution channel then, we are now presented with hundreds of channels of digital TV, Video on Demand (VOD) and interactive services.
How Connected TV changes the world
VideoNet
The developing device and content ecosystem, likely business models and what it means for Pay TV.
The availability of content and viewing technology and whether consumers will make the switch how connected.
TV changes The World The developing device and content ecosystem, likely business models and what it means for Pay TV from cinema to daily TV.
Hybrid dimension
Article from European Communication
The future of pay-TV is hybrid says Francois Pogodalla. What hybrid means is the combination of DVB reception techniques for receiving broadcast digital video, with IP capability to receive video or other multimedia content over Ethernet. The opportunities for new services enabled by hybrid products are immense.
Hybrid focus
Article from CSI
Convergence is content-centric, not device-centric, andhome networking is a key element of that, argues Francois Pogodalla, CEO of set-top box maker Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB).
IPTV driving the connected home
Technologies are like stars in the sky. Some burn bright and others fade; some die while others are born. Five years ago IPTV was just another small star in the sky but today it is one of the brightest in the technological sky and is growing brighter and larger everyday.
Personalising the TV-experience
CSI supplement
Just 70 years ago, turning on the TV gave access to one radiotransmitted black and white low resolution video channel. Yesterday, after watching live 8 o'clock news, while my PVR was recording an HD movie for later viewing, my wife and I browsed on our living room's flat TV a few HD photos stored on one of our home PCs by the gentle sound of MP3 music streaming wirelessly to the HiFi system.
Tight integration
Article from ScreenPlays
Advanced Digital Broadcast is betting it can expand its strength in the settop market, including North American cable, by pursuing a strategy that leverages pre-integration of head-turning features running on advanced chipsets to greatly simplify operators' efforts to deliver a next-generation consumer experience.
TV User Experience
Article from CSI
As user interfaces (UIs) become all-important over the coming years, can payTV operators keep control of the user experience, and who controls the customer, asks David Adams.
Get the best for your HD TV
Fom ADB
we have created a guide to help you select a Freeview HD set-top box that meets your specific requirements. It is designed to help you ask the right questions and understand what the answers mean, to help you make an informed decision when picking a Freeview HD-enabled set-top box.
