Steve Christian
June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013
This week at CommunicAsia 2013, we will be sharing more details of our recently announced initiative to help make comprehensive pay-TV security integrity and flexibility more accessible to the public broadcaster and Free-to-Air (FTA) communities.
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Recent Entries
Simon Twiston Davies
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013
This one was buried in a useful pdf summary of the latest news on “managed” and “un-managed” pay TV operator networks: “Telcos have decided they need to be video service providers first and network operators second . . . “ So they finally get it!
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Kelly Foster
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013
Videonet’s recent The Hybrid Platform Operator report highlights the market implications of the hybrid platform operator and explores the challenges in creating a unified service through multiple networks and devices. For this post, we chatted with Steve Christian, VP of Marketing at Verimatrix, to get his perspective on this timely topic.
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Steve Christian
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Unless of course you were one of the 92,000 attendees at last months's NAB show.
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Vanessa Vigar
May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013
According to Samsung’s Vassilis Seferidis who spoke at our Multi-network Solutions in the Real World Forum at TV Connect, there are two propositions for Samsung’s Smart TVs in each market. The first is to fulfil the TV desires of people that don’t want a pay-TV experience, but do want to access additional services and features a smart TV offers. The second is to offer existing pay-TV subscribers easy access to the services they have already paid for, without having to have a STB. By replicating the STB experience, Samsung gets closer to the operators rather than competing with them.
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Kelly Foster
May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013
Last month, Videonet released its report on The Hybrid Platform Operator, which looks at the market implications of the hybrid platform operator and considers the challenges in creating what should be a unified service through multiple networks and devices. We had the pleasure of sitting down with John Moulding, the editor of the report Videonet, to discuss the evolution of hybrid network offerings, and the challenges facing hybrid operators today.
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Avni Rambhia
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013
NAB 2013 brought home three main themes for the digital media team at Frost & Sullivan:
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Steve Christian
March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013
We are making final preparations for our popular Multi-network Solutions in the Real World Forum at TV Connect next week, during which we will explore the “Operator as App” business model. In anticipation, we sat down with the panelists from our Videonet webinar on the same topic: Vassilis Seferidis of Samsung, and Jonas Hasselberg of TeliaSonera, to discuss some of the unanswered attendee questions.
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Steve Christian
March 9, 2013
March 9, 2013
As we make the final preparations for the CABSAT installment of our Multi-Network Solutions in the Real World Forum, we had the pleasure of sitting down with one of our esteemed panelists, Frédéric Maizeret, Vice President of Sales at SoftAtHome. During our conversation, we discussed the challenges facing pay-TV operators today as well as strategies for overcoming these challenges. Following are excerpts from our discussion.
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Steve Christian
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013
The Middle East and Africa are fueling some of the most exciting innovations in the realms of multi-channel video services and we anticipate CABSAT to be an exciting event. The Multi-Network Forum is a great way to bring industry leaders together to set the stage for discussion throughout the rest of the show.
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Steve Oetegenn
February 7, 2013
February 7, 2013
Ahead of Cable Congress 2013 we speak to Steve Oetegenn, CMSO at Verimatrix, about the evolving world of security in the cable marketplace. Verimatrix is the Revenue Security sponsor for this year’s Cable Congress.
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